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Terms you need to know in construction tech

Terms you need to know in construction tech

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Terms you need to know in construction tech

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- So let's start with some quick definitions. It really helps to use some common language, and to really understand what these terms mean because in all of my travels, I've, I continue to see people who say they understand terms and computation and really, really don't when I press them on the issue. I'll start with Cloud. Now (chuckles) I will admit, personally, I'm not a huge fan of the phrase Cloud, because we've really been in this yo-yo game in computation between on-site computing and off-site computing. On-site mainframe and decentralized work stations. And originally, computers were very large mainframe and we had mainframe computers the size of this room that had a tenth of the computing capacity or a hundredth of the computing capacity of a phone. And then we moved to the personal computer, and we decentralized everything, and then we reconnected everything using networks. And so you've seen this continual ebb and flow of computing going from centralized to decentralized…

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