years old, ending up in containers shipped to China, where valuable metals are harvested in environmentally dangerous ways and the rest consigned to landfills, where toxic electronics waste spoils the environment. The compressed digital lifecycle is also straining training budgets. Change is coming at us faster than we can absorb it, and no relief is on the horizon. And where there is change, the potential for exploitation is rife.
With Clouds Come Rain The amazing vanishing computer will continue to play a bigger role in our lives for the foreseeable future. PCs will likely continue to shrink, but IDC, a respected source of IT predictions, claims we will store 50 times more data over the next decade — much of which will be hosted in the cloud. One thing is certain — there will be rain. ILTA
Kim Brand is a technology expert who speaks nationally and writes frequently about the use of computers in law firms. He is a Senior Consultant and the President of Computer Experts, Inc., an IT consultancy in Indianapolis. Kim is also the inventor of FileSafe, a server used by many lawyers that is the only on-premises server priced like a cloud server. He can be reached at Kim@ComputerExpertsIndy.com.
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