What is Post-cloud Computing?

If in a stage of computing the following two conditions hold, this stage of computing could be called post-cloud computing era:

1. Cloud computing is not dominant.
2. The relative importance of cloud computing is not increasing.

Cloud computing obtained widely acceptance in the past decade; its usage was increasing quickly. But we believe that cloud computing has never dominated the computing world. With the quick development of Internet of Things, wireless devices, and artificial intelligence, the relative importance of cloud computing is increasing slowly or not increasing at all. Thus, we believe that post-cloud computing era is coming or has already come.

Post-cloud computing is not a specific computing paradigm; instead, it covers a few computing models that are related to cloud computing and remedial to cloud computing in the post-cloud computing era. Major post-cloud computing models include CDEF, i.e. Cloudlet, Dew computing, Edge computing, and Fog computing.