Cloud Computing, which is a new type of computing model, although doesn’t have a long history, is being developed and promoted by megascale IT companies as Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft and various institutions at a tremendous pace. As a new kind of technology being shaped, the development and standardization of Cloud Computing has caused broad attention and debate among academia, business world, as well as government.

How do we understand the heart of the debate? Traditional technology determinism presumes that as a result of research, the development of technology itself follows a predictable, traceable path largely beyond cultural and political influence. But take a look at the issue of "Cloud Computing", apart from technical difficulties, many problems lie in social dimension surrounding the concept of Cloud Computing. The concept of “Cloud Computing” is somehow obscure to users. For example, according to Google, Could Computing is an online data storage platform and telecommuting infrastructure displayed in the form of webpages. But when it comes to Apple, “cloud” becomes invisible to users. By creating an account, documents and files are synchronized unconsciously among devices as iPhone, iPad and Mac. In other cases, it means a certain kind of online document-sharing applications like “Dropbox”, etc. Almost all of these main promoters of cloud computing have their unique understanding of this technology under their own perspective. The process of standardization directly points to the profit of the companies.

Besides, State policy and administration might be involved as well. Early during the birth of the Internet, the internet society demonstrated a character of "decentralizing". With the development of new internet technology, users come to realize that although the information and communication power is still widely separated by individual units, the data itself show a trend of centralizing, large amount of data are stored in the server (you can also say cloud). Francis Bacon has a famous saying that “Knowledge is power”. In the era of “big data”, the centralizing of data enhances the systemization of the whole society. We can conclude that those who commands data also holds power.

New technology is serving not merely as tools, but rather public utilities and infrastructure of the society. The relationship between technology and society cannot be reduced to a simplistic cause-and-effect formula, which is new forms of technology are created in the labs, and then it comes to market and influence the society. It is rather an "intertwining". In many cases, the leading force of technology development might no longer be merely researchers; Users, companies and even the state all take part in the formation of new technology, thus rises an important question, to whom should we give the right of leading the development of a new technology? We should not neglect the political value imbedded in the formation of new technology. This may lead to the new perspective in technology and innovation management to acquire the dynamic balance in future relationship between technology and society.