This document discusses the concept of a personal cloud computer that would act as an intelligent digital assistant. It would be a centralized hub that allows users to access and manage their data, software, and online services from any device. The personal cloud aims to solve problems for users by acting as a digital companion that can analyze information, host applications, and enhance collaboration through conversational bots. It is envisioned as a sandboxed and portable API nexus that users own and control through open standards.

1. Building a
Personal Cloud
Computer
Sept 11, 2013
Jeff Kramer
@jeffk
jeffkramer.com

2. Not Storage, But Logic

3. Greetings
Programs

4. What’s Past is Prologue
CC Mike Dunn
flickr.com/photos/glemak/4640580632/
Wouldn’t you really prefer to run your
home and office life with a gaggle of
well-trained butlers (to answer the
telephone), maids (to make the hospital
corners on your bed), secretaries (to
filter the world), accountants or
brokers (to manage your money), and
on some occasions, cooks, gardeners
and chauffeurs where there were too
many guests, weeds or cars on the
road?
Nicholas Negroponte
The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design (1990)

5. So
What
Happened?

6. http://www.globalnerdy.com/2013/06/17/mobile-is-eating-the-world/

7. It Solves All
My Problems!It’s So Easy!

8. PC Mobile
SaaSCloud
Own the Hardware
Own the Data
Own the Software
No Hardware, But Standards
Own the Data
Free or Own the Software
Rent the Hardware
Own Some of the Data
Rent the Software
No Hardware
Own Some of the Data
No Software

9. The Personal
Cloud Has To
Solve Problems
CC Julia Frost
flickr.com/photos/johnnystiletto/5920632542/

11. 1 ZB = 1,073,741,824 TB

13. It’s
About
You

14. Your Companion
in a World
Running at
Internet
Speed

15. Your Companion
in a World
Running at
Internet
Speed

16. The Central Terminal of
Your Digital Life

17. A Place To:
Think,Analyze, Process,
Play, Pretend,
Re-Invent, and...
Be Forgotten

18. Embodied As...
A Migratory, Standards
Compliant, Remotely Accessible
API Nexus with Authentication,
Application Hosting, Permission
Delegation, Managed Updates,
Notifications and Dynamic Scaling
Capabilities

19. Sandbox
All The Things!

20. Simplicity First (Maybe.)

22. Nuts
&
Bolts

23. Portable, Pluggable, Scalable
Application Containers

24. Assistive Bots

25. Collaboratively
Enhanced

26. CC Peter Bihr
flickr.com/photos/thewavingcat/8332834421/

27. Story Telling Bots

31. A Playground for
Procedural Content Generation

32. API Backups & Intermediaries

33. Thinking?

34. CC DG Jones
flickr.com/photos/dgjones/3125993197/
xScreen
w/Responsive
Design &
Alternate Input
Methods

35. Glass 2.0

36. Adafruit

37. IP On
All The
Things

38. API Market

40. Intelligent
Linkage

41. CC Robobobobo
flickr.com/photos/45493477@N05/4178051127/
Meat
Space

42. Enterprise’s Problems Today
AreYour Problems Tomorrow

43. Where
Do We
Start?

44. Minimum
Viable
Product

45. Just
Good
Enough

46. but

47. @jeffk jeffkramer.com
weavrs: weavrs.com Numenta: numenta.org
HUBOT: hubot.github.com mashape: mashape.com
Personal Clouds Wiki: personal-clouds.org
Project VRM: cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page
Docker: docker.io
Kynetx: kynetx.com
Aaron Cope’s Time Pixels Talk:
aaronland.info/weblog/2012/12/01/coffee-and-wifi/