by Simon Biles
If you have been kind enough to read some of the other articles that I’ve written here on Forensic Focus, you may have noticed that I have a bit of a penchant for historical references ( and quotes, and clichés, but for now – please focus on the references ! ) – something that some of my History teachers might be astonished by, given how long they spent trying to get me to learn who killed who in 1066, possibly nothing compared to the amazement from my English teachers that I’m writing anything at all - but we’ll move on from that swiftly – we are operating in a field that has only been around for, by all counts ( ok, let’s leave Babbage out of it ) not even a century, yet we seem to have run out of innovation. It’s a bit embarrassing actually – we cover it up nicely by making things a bit smaller, or a bit shinier – but really we’re all aware of the fact that, nice as these superficial improvements are – we’re no closer to innovation than a fresh coat of paint on a room is to a Van Gogh.
I’ve known this for a while – not that it stops me from wanting shiny things – but it really came to my attention with “cloud computing”…
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