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A Prehistory of the Cloud

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Description for A Prehistory of the Cloud Paperback. .
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. 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. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. 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. In this ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262529969
SKU
V9780262529969
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About Tung-Hui Hu
Tung-Hui Hu, a former network engineer, is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan and the recipient of a 2015 NEA literature fellowship.

Reviews for A Prehistory of the Cloud
The realm of the cloud does not countenance loss, but when we touch it, we corrupt it. The word for such a system - a memory that preserves, encrypts and mystifies a lost love-object - is indeed melancholy. Hu's is a deeply melancholy book and for that reason, a valuable one. -New Scientist But the thing about ... Read more

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