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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 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. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar†as exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike†political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology. Moving between the materiality of the technology itself and its cultural rhetoric, Hu's account offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.
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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 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. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar†as exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike†political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology. Moving between the materiality of the technology itself and its cultural rhetoric, Hu's account offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.
Tung-Hui Hu,A Prehistory of the Cloud (The MIT Press),The MIT Press,0262029510,Computer networks - History,Computer networks;History;Popular works.,Internet - Social aspects,Internet;Social aspects;Popular works.,COMPUTER NETWORKS,COMPUTERS / Cloud Computing,COMPUTERS / Networking / General,COMPUTERS / Social Aspects,COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY,Cloud Computing,Computer Applications,Computer Books General,Computer/General,Computers,Computers - Communications / Networking,Computers/Cloud Computing,Computers/Social Aspects,Cultural Studies/General,Digital Humanities New Media/New Media History,Ethical social aspects of IT,General Adult,History,Information Science/Communications Telecommunications,Networking - General,Non-Fiction,Science, Technology Society/History of Technology,Social Aspects - General,UNIVERSITY PRESS,United States,COMPUTERS / Cloud Computing,COMPUTERS / Networking / General,COMPUTERS / Social Aspects,Cloud Computing,Computers/Cloud Computing,Computers/Social Aspects,Networking - General,Social Aspects - General,Computers - Communications / Networking,Computer Networks,Computers And Society,Computers,Computer Books General,Ethical social aspects of IT
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