“I think we’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying…”
One of my favorite Bowie moments (I’m a massive Bowie fan):
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The Human Hope, the Cloud, and why 70% of internet traffic flows through Northern Virginia
Short but fascinating-to-ponder pilgrim’s progress piece… And maybe my desire to submerge myself in that sediment, to weave The Cloud into the timelines of railroad robber-barons and military R&D, emerges from the same anxiety that makes me go try to find these buildings in the first place: that maybe we have mistaken The Cloud’s fiction …
Internet’s Action and Reaction Loop
I’m archiving this snippet and article to revisit in 2020… I wonder if we’ll look back on 2015 as a “tipping point” of the internet as we knew it? The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow in 1996 does seem like a long ago dream. Perhaps immediacy is not a democratizing state …