A Prehistory of the Cloud

Informationen zum Autor Tung-Hui Hu! a former network engineer! is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan and the recipient of a 2015 NEA literature fellowship. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Tung-Hui Hu, Tung-Hui (University of Michigan) Hu
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780262029513
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02951-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The MIT Press; Mit Press
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks