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008			150819s2015 enk ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780262330091 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aTK5105 _b.P744 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHu, Tung-Hui, _d1978- _e1
245	1	0	_aA prehistory of the Cloud /Tung-Hui Hu.
260			_aCambridge : _bMIT Press Ltd, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (232 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	8		_aWe 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.
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650		0	_aComputer networks _xHistory _vPopular works.
650		0	_aInternet _xSocial aspects _vPopular works.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell