4 petabytes just for FREE storage?
I just read this great article at I, Cringley that hypothesized the collateral problems that come with the network being the computer.
Excerpts:
“My point here is that we’re entering another period of Internet exuberance. Yes, a lot has changed since 1999, but it’s amazing how many of the ideas being pushed are the SAME ideas, just empowered now by dark fiber, cheap broadband, and six years of Moore’s Law. And this time I think it will actually work and the Internet will change even more than it has the ways we live and work. But it isn’t going to come easy and it isn’t going to come cheap.”
“NOW we know why Google bought those 30 acres on the Columbia River in Oregon right next to a generating station from the Bonneville Power Administration.”
–Stephen M. James
www.smjdesign.com
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