5000 Days: Cloud, Ai, Culture, History & Future

TECHNOLOGY CHANGES FAST. PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS DON'T.

At 2 a.m. on a Saturday in 2005, Matt Carolan was sleeping on a commercial office floor, using foam packaging from an IBM server box as a pillow while waiting for files to copy before Monday morning.

Five years later, he launched a Windows server in the cloud and had it running in less than ten minutes.

That transformation was enormous. But the technology was only part of the story.

The real challenge was how people and organizations adap...