by Joel Campbell and Amy Zeller Directions Magazine Technology Maturation Created the Cloud When the computing age took off in the 1960s, powerful mainframe computers ran bulk data processes inside large organizations. At that same time, several companies realized they could take advantage of these large-scale systems by selling chunks of processing time to smaller [...]

by Eric A Morris,  New York Times Opinion “Freakonomics”. Bad news: with all due respect to Terrafugia, unless you’re a fan of Futurama it’s probably going to be awhile before you see a flying car. But cars that drive themselves are coming, probably within most of our lifetimes and possibly sooner than you might think. [...]