Gmail Gedanken experiment
In honor of the recent gmail outage.Lets imagine that Google somehow caught a perfect storm and actually lost all gmail data. All of it. (I realize this is as close to impossible as you can get, but that's why it's a gedanken experiment). What would happen?
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Google would lose all their credibility? People would realize that having all their data in the cloud is not risk-free?
This doomsday scenario sounds so unlikely that it gets to the point of being ludicrous...
This doomsday scenario sounds so unlikely that it gets to the point of being ludicrous...
Because so many people use it for business communication, I think it'd have long-term effects on the economy that would be really difficult (but interesting) to measure.
It's not a perfect example, because you can get your mails out of GMail, but - This kind of thing might be what it takes to pass legislation forcing data services to provide access (see http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617 )
It's not a perfect example, because you can get your mails out of GMail, but - This kind of thing might be what it takes to pass legislation forcing data services to provide access (see http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617 )