It is obvious that we can no longer ignore is the fact that this is the new wave of the future. A time is coming when our computers and laptops will be will be merely, stand-alone, software-less devices, which will only serve as connections to the internet.
So, what does it mean to us engineers and our beloved AutoCAD andMicrostation applications? If we are to fully embrace this new wave of computing, then we will have to brace ourselves and accept that cloud computing is an unavoidable emerging computing technology which will use the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Once we have accepted this basic fact, then we can address the other issues that we are likely to face as engineers.
