Cloudy skies over CeBIT
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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I just got back from CeBIT, which means I’m about ready to curl up and sleep for three and a half days straight — and that’s after attending just the first half of the monstrous Hannover tech show.
While sitting in the conference centre listing to keynote speeches, I was stuck by how many of the talks were stressing the benefits of the cloud, always-on-connectivity, and accessing data where ever we go. Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Adobe and more went on and on about it.
Then, I went to separate talk, held by SAP at their own conference-within-the-show (CeBIT is that big that it swallows other events whole). There, speakers were talking about linking up all aspects of a city, so traffic and air quality and energy use could all be monitored to improve systems.
The overriding idea is that we must — no, will — be connected all the time, and it will make the world a better place. I don’t have the energy to agree or disagree with that, but only want to note this: finding a wireless connection at CeBIT was a pain in the ass.
I carried my lovely little Eee PC everywhere I went, balancing it on my knees to take notes. The Press Centre had a connection, but it frequently fell over or stalled out. And while the conference centre itself had a wireless connection, the rest of the campus didn’t. If I went to go see the Future Parc or SAP’s World Tour, I struggled to get online.
Sure, the show is massive, with some two dozen aircraft hangar style halls, and sorting that out is no easy thing. But if you can’t connect up one of the world’s top tech shows, how in the hell to you propose to link up a city?
Rated: 73.33% (3 votes)
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