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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. show more (2)
in 1916, just thirteen years after the wright brothers' first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, nearly all of them from yale, decided to try the new sport of motorized flight and formed a campus flying club. the boys had more than fun in mind. believing that america would soon enter the war raging in europe, they wanted to help their woefully unprepared nation (which at the time had an air force smaller than bulgaria's) ready itself for what was sure to be a hard fight. most were just teenagers, but they were also the sons of america's early 20th century aristocracy - one a rockefeller, one whose father headed the union pacific railroad empire, others who traced their roots to the mayflower, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen - and all fabulously wealthy. these sons of the elite were schooled in heroism even before their nation called upon them. america was going to go to war: they would lead the way; they knew that it could cost many lives; and that just made it all the more right that they be the first to fly into battle. this is their story. 'vivid descriptions of aerial combat ...but the true pleasure of this book is in his portraits of the six principal players and his elucidation of their deep-rooted sense of patriotic duty and camaraderie' daily telegraph show more (1)

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1 图书 A Prehistory of the Cloud
责任者 Hu, Tung-Hui

出版信息 MIT Press ,2016

ISBN 978-0-262-52996-9

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责任者 Hu, Tung-Hui

出版信息 MIT Press ,2016

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3 图书 The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Air Might
责任者 Marc Wortman

出版信息 MacMillan ,2006

ISBN 978-0-330-44017-2

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Marc Wortman.MacMillan,2006.

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