Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden In Spy Country

[Mark Thibodeau]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 5:45 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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