Prehistory of the Cloud Hu Tung-Hui
Prehistory of the Cloud Hu Tung-Hui The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics.We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute,…
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Prehistory of the Cloud Hu Tung-Hui
The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics.We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town.
In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud.Hu shows that the cloud grew out of such older networks as railroad tracks, sewer lines, and television circuits. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game "Spacewar" as exemplar
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