Cloud computing is the foundation of tomorrow's intelligent world

Last week, telecommunications experts gathered in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the industry's premier event and a chance for tech companies to show off their latest innovations in areas as diverse as 5G technology, artificial intelligence, and the cloud. Although the cloud is far from a new idea, its true capabilities are only now beginning to be realized. Here are four ways in which the cloud will shape our lives over the next decade and beyond. Cloud will provide the digital infrastructure of tomorrow's cities, where an estimated 6 billion of the world's population will live by 2045. Smart elevators and parking lots, driverless cars and drone taxis, trains and subways, farms and power plants – all will be safer and better managed, thanks to the cloud's ability to store and analyze data.