How "Cloud computing" affects education and developments in society

As technology today continues with development making the ease of use of devices very flexible and efficient, a lot of different cases of internal evolution has occurred altogether with the futuristic development of these devices. For example the smart phone's, personal computers, embedded systems etc.

One of the biggest cases in development has been the birth of cloud computing. Here users are able to share information to different users or himself/herself with ease as it is all connected to a cloud.

Social Impacts

Education wise, cloud computing has affected widely both positively and negatively. One of the negative impacts although can be considered positive that cloud computing has affecting students education with is that the ability of students being able to access data from anywhere. This means that students are able to access delicate information without constraints. This is able to be classified as theft/cheating depending on the cases.The positive side of this however is that the information can be for research use.  Cloud computing can also heavily affect the development of an industry as it said to be used for research use and external costs that are included in research will be completely cut as the access through the cloud along the connection between the devices is at ease.

Ethical Issues

Together with the posting of delicate information along the cloud comes along the vulnerability of the information available. Problems such as control over personal data may arise since the ability of taking information from others is very easy once it is present in the "cloud connection". As the continuous growth of cloud computing continues, this may result to the domination prior to the different aspects of the internet. This develops into the further redundancy in the different processes with sharing specific information along the internet. For example the use of external drives (memory sticks) may be made redundant as cloud computing will be looked as an easier and faster way of sharing information from one device to another.