Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden In Spy Country

[Perry Noid]

"...that maybe we have mistaken The Cloud's fiction of infinite storage
capacity for history itself. It is a misunderstanding that hinges on a
weird, sad, very human hope that history might actually end, or at least
reach some kind of perfect equipoise in which nothing terrible could ever
happen again. As though if we could only collate and collect and process
and store enough data points, the world’s infinite vaporware of real-time
data dashboards would align into some kind of ultimate sand mandala of
total world knowledge, a proprietary data nirvana without terror or
heartbreak or bankruptcy or death, heretofore only gestured towards in
terrifying wall-to-wall Accenture and IBM advertisements at airports."

Was almost convinced I was reading Gibson. Nice article, thanks, much
better writing than Sean Penn.

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shades of BE and Gibson here:
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/
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