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008			151223s2015 mauab ob 001 eng d
010			_z 2015001899 (print)
020			_a9780262330091 _qelectronic
020			_z9780262029513 _qhardcover : alk. paper
035			_a(CaBNVSL)mat07288688
035			_a(IDAMS)0b00006484a52738
040			_aCaBNVSL _beng _erda _cCaBNVSL _dCaBNVSL
050		4	_aTK5105.5 _b.H79 2015eb
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100	1		_aHu, Tung-Hui, _d1978- _924725
245	1	2	_aA prehistory of the cloud / _cTung-Hui Hu.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _c[2015]
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2015]
300			_a1 PDF (xxix, 209 pages) : _billustrations, map.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_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. 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.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650		0	_aComputer networks _xHistory _vPopular works. _924726
650		0	_aInternet _xSocial aspects _vPopular works. _924727
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
695			_aEpitaxial layers
695			_aExcitons
695			_aNitrogen
695			_aRadiative recombination
695			_aSilicon carbide
695			_aTemperature measurement
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _924728
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _924729
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262029513
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7288688
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