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A Prehistory of the Cloud [Mit Press]
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780262529969
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Prehistory of the Cloud
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262529963
ISBN-13
9780262529969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221919852
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Prehistory of the Cloud
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tk5105.5.H79 2016
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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., Witty, sharp and theoretically aware, Hu deconstructs this much-discussed but poorly understood 'cultural fantasy'., 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., Witty, sharp and theoretically aware, Hu deconstructs this much-discussed but poorly understood "cultural fantasy"., But the thing about a cloud, Tung-Hui Hu reminds us in his mesmerizing new book, A Prehistory of the Cloud , is that you can only see it from a distance..... A Prehistory of the Cloud is Hu's imaginative attempt to bring this abstraction into clearer focus. It's informed as much by his current jobs (English professor and poet) as his old one (network engineer), and his approach is eclectic and unpredictable, full of unexpected riffs on Victorian sewage systems, the history of television, counterculture seekers, and the chilling final scene of Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid classic 'The Conversation.', But the thing about a cloud, Tung-Hui Hu reminds us in his mesmerizing new book, "A Prehistory of the Cloud," is that you can only see it from a distance..... "A Prehistory of the Cloud" is Hu's imaginative attempt to bring this abstraction into clearer focus. It's informed as much by his current jobs (English professor and poet) as his old one (network engineer), and his approach is eclectic and unpredictable, full of unexpected riffs on Victorian sewage systems, the history of television, counterculture seekers, and the chilling final scene of Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid classic "The Conversation.", But the thing about a cloud, Tung-Hui Hu reminds us in his mesmerizing new book, A Prehistory of the Cloud , is that you can only see it from a distance..... A Prehistory of the Cloud is Hu's imaginative attempt to bring this abstraction into clearer focus. It's informed as much by his current jobs (English professor and poet) as his old one (network engineer), and his approach is eclectic and unpredictable, full of unexpected riffs on Victorian sewage systems, the history of television, counterculture seekers, and the chilling final scene of Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid classic "The Conversation."
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Cloud Computing, Social Aspects / General, Networking / General
Lccn
2015-001899
Dewey Decimal
004.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers
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