The cloud. It’s the future of personal computing!
Actually, it’s been the present of personal computing for, oh, about six years now. Which means it’s time for one of the concept’s biggest service providers, Dropbox, to follow in Twitter’s footsteps and make tech headlines of its own by dint of an astonishingly high valuation and impending IPO bid.
That cloud computing has now been around long enough for early adopters to tire of the term also means your parents just heard about it.
Just in time for them to have mastered email, and started looking for the next computer thingy by which to be terrified. Just in time for them to want to know if “the cloud” has something to do with why their new smartphones are clogged with photos, or maybe how the FaceSpace works.
Just in time for the holiday visit.
Here’s a handy guide to help you through the inevitable conversation.