The View From Inside a Cloud
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Baffler Literary Magazine
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Volume / pages
- Vol 2, No. 01
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The Importance of Knowing What Runs the Internet
Why do we choose to approach the most cutting-edge computer technologies of our brave new world using the language and concepts of cavemen? We talk of loading data "up" to somewhere--but where do we mean? Heaven? We transfer data via ethernet cables as if data were "ethereal." Developers of tomorrow's computers talk…