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- Book Title
- A Prehistory of the Cloud
- Title
- A Prehistory of the Cloud
- ISBN-10
- 0262529963
- EAN
- 9780262529969
- ISBN
- 9780262529969
- Genre
- Computing & Internet
- Topic
- Society & Culture
- Release Date
- 02/09/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- A Prehistory of the Cloud
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- Social Sciences, Computer Science
- 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.
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MIT Press Ltd
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A Prehistory of the Cloud
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Paperback
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English
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Social Sciences, Computer Science
Publication Year
2016
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Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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The MIT Press
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