Let us say that I am in a situation when I am 3/4 of the way done with a paper that I have to turn in at school. As I am putting the finishing touches on the paper, which is due on three days, my computer suddenly shuts off. I try turning it on again, it immediately shuts down by itself. I decided to take in my computer to the technicians to see what is wrong with it. The techs tell me it is an operating system problem and would be fixed in about 2 weeks. I do not have time to wait that long, I have to finish my paper in 3 days!
Well luckily there are a couple of alternatives that my research paper can still be saved. Since I was almost done with the paper, all I needed was the bibliography section to complete. Thanks to cloud-computing, which in the Wikipedia article is explains the definition which is “a web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices such as smart phones,” I can still complete the paper. The computing cloud may include sections that can be helpful for my paper which include Google and Microsoft. Google can be used to search up the bibliography I need to complete and Microsoft can help me type up the rest of my paper on a Word processing program. I can just go to the local library or I can borrow a friend or a family member’s computer to type up the rest and I am good to go. Since the cloud allows me to connect to a different computer my task can be done. It is also important to have back-up storage for you work just in case anything similar to this situation might happen. The examples for back-up storage are saving and sending your work to an email account, saving it in a flash drive, or the program Google Docs.
