ABSTRACT
A few years later, and similar transitions are underway. Some have fl ocked from traditional “D” cinematography to the brave new world of virtual reality (VR), a technology now almost mature enough to be made available to consumers in much the same way as happened with stereoscopic D a decade earlier. Another, quieter revolution is also taking place, however. So-called “Cloud Services” are replacing almost every area of Information Technology; where any service that existed in the form of some software application would now instead leverage the power of the Cloud to perform its functions, from the more general-purpose applications such as for creating spreadsheets or editing images, through to more specialised ones for medical procedures or controlling the temperature of a room. Gradually, almost everything that could be Cloud-based in some way became Cloud-based.
