From Desktop to the Digital Cloud

"Cloud computing" sounds exotic, but it’s becoming absolutely commonplace.
All kinds of computer activity that used to happen in your home or office, on your PC’s local software, is instead happening online. On the Web. In the “cloud.”
Your digital address book is probably there. Your calendar. Your digital photos. And soon, much more — maybe all — of the computing you do will happen far from your desktop. On Internet server farms. In the cloud.
Google and Microsoft are battling there. And a lot more than money may be at stake.
This hour, On Point: Cloud computing and you.
You can join the conversation. Tell us what you think — here on this page, on Twitter, and on Facebook.Guests:

Joining us from Cambridge, Mass., is Jonathan Zittrain, professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It." In a recent op-ed piece for The New York Times, titled "Lost in the Cloud," he argued that cloud computing "comes with real dangers."

And joining us from San Francisco is Kara Swisher, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-executive editor of All Things Digital, a website owned by Dow Jones covering technology, the Internet and media.

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In a guest post on the On Point blog, Jonathan Zittrain explains why he's still worried — despite Kara Swisher's and others' "utterly reasonable optimism."