Skeptical about emulation?

If you're skeptical about two trends I've been pointing to, the rapid rise of emulation technology, and the evolution of the Web's language from HTML to Javascript, you need to watch Gary Bernhardt's video that fell through a time-warp from 2035.

Also, at the recent EverCloud workshop Mahadev Satyanarayanan, my colleague from the long-gone days of the Andrew Project, gave an impressive live demo of C-MU's Olive emulation technology. The most impressive part was that the emulations started almost instantly, despite that fact that they were demand-paging over the hotel's not super-fast Internet.

EverCloud workshop

I was invited to a workshop sponsored by ISAT/DARPA entitled The EverCloud: Anticipating and Countering Cloud-Rot that arose from Yale's EverCloud project. I gave a brief statement on an initial panel; an edited text with links to the sources is below the fold.