When you add it all up … what d’ya get?

What happens when the sharing economy, the desire for sustainability, and the standardization of hardware meets the cloud. We’re going to find out in 2017. For a hint, we can look at the software industry. Customers may not like it, and many vendors are afraid of it, but subscription or metered usage approaches are going to become the norm. One of the accelerating factors will be the coming of 5G which promises to enable always on, stable internet by the quarter century, 2025. The telecom industry giants are pledging to work together to build an interoperating, standardized world network. That’d