About 10 years ago I wrote an email to Microsoft about intermittent data clouds and how the a future holographic projection compute system could work.
In this letter I detailed how you could interface with clouds of activity.
Then a few months later the cloud computing initiative was born.
I later wrote how people could collaborate over such clouds.
Big companies may have adopted the name of this idea but they have forgotten the spirit of it instead companies have become far more insular with the technology and nothing is really intermittent and you can't a start up a web activity and collaborate across services or keep such an activity saved or worked on whilst your computer is not there.
I thought of this tech because I had heard of mashing and saw this as an ultimate future taking mashing into account.
All most companies have called cloud services are simply a re-branding of the old model with some new options. The big companies have not truly moved forward with the idea well because I think much like different political parties they do not get on at the expense of the commons and her people.