XDesign uses the cloud for sharing files, and best of all, it requires no installation as it is accessed online using a browser. Music, movies, and other entertainment has been moving us in this direction for a while. Remember Blockbuster? Every weekend, I’d go to Blockbuster and pick out one or two movies, and they’d have to be returned the next day (and I couldn’t forget to rewind the VHS tape!) Today, we login to Netflix or Hulu, or order movies on demand. I have to say, this instant gratification thing is pretty cool.
Today, with apps like Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and others, you can pick the song you want or even subscribe and get ongoing new music based on your preferences. When I was a kid, if I wanted to buy music, I took the bus to a mall and walked into a store selling albums or CDs, and bought the entire album/CD for the one song that I actually wanted. The future is collaborating on the cloud, with everyone focused on the design itself, rather than the hardware and software to get there. Complex software installations, managing a server, and lengthy training sessions are the past. They expect to simply download an app or browse to a webpage to get the information that they need, instantly. The next generation of Centennials (Generation Z) has never lived life without the internet.
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So in order to continue to improve, we have to change the direction of technology, and that’s fine because we know exactly how to do it – by using the CLOUD. We have the manufacturing knowledge to do it, but the physical size of an electron is now limiting us from designing smaller or faster CPUs. Computers got faster and smaller throughout the decades to the point where they are now physically impossible to make any faster or smaller due to physics.