When I started my business career in the early 80's, I remember the first time I saw a personal computer. It was made by IBM. It took four or five minutes to 'boot' up, making all kinds of clicking and clacking noises. The operating system was called MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. At the end of the boot up process, you had a beautiful green screen with one flashing character: '>'. From this flashing prompt you could type in commands (known as DOS commands) and your computer would do things for you. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs believed that we would eventually all have a 'personal computer' on our desks. Many people thought they were crazy. This was the beginning of a revolution. The beginning of a new way to work. A shift that only comes along about once every 30 years or so.
Introducing the next gigantic shift in the way we work. Introducing cloud, mobile and infinite computing. It has been a little more than 30 years since the personal computer revolution. Autodesk is leading the way in helping creators (designers, architects, engineers, artists) take advantage of the next great change in the way we work. I love this article from Autodesk CEO Carl Bass: We've reached infinity, so start creating.
Quoting from the article:
"We are on the verge of a revolution. It's a technological, social and cultural revolution called infinite computing. Infinite computing is the confluence of three trends: an exponential increase in available computing power; access to that power; and the precipitous fall in the cost of that power. Today, computing is the least expensive resource we can throw at a problem. And when one combines these trends with the scalability that we can now access via the cloud, we can deploy hundreds, even thousands, of computers to help solve the growing number of challenges we face as designers, engineers and artists today."What an exciting time to be in the design field! A time when infinite computing power and access to powerful design software is available to everyone.
