Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden In Spy Country

[John Bailey]

Damn that's a fine paragraph.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> "...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:
>>
>>
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/
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