- Katie Fehrenbacher, “ Google Floats Idea of Wave Powered Data Center, ” Gigaom, September 8, 2008, https://gigaom.com/2008/09/08/google-floats-idea-of-wave-powered-data-center/, and “ Google to Switch on Seawater-Cooled Data Center This Fall, ” Gigaom, May 24, 2011, https:// gigaom.com/2011/05/24/google-to-switch-on-worlds-first-seawater-cooled-data-center-this-fall/. On the speculative geography of oceanic architectures for Cloud systems, in this case HFT, see “ Islands at the Speed of Light, ” BLDGBLOG (blog), March 30, 2011, http://bldgblog.blogspot .com/2011/03/islands-at-speed-of-light.html. Pay particular attention to the notion of “ aircraft carriers as networked archipelagos. ”
- See Larry Digran “ Google Wins Floating Data Center Patent, ” April 30, 2009, http://www. zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-wins-floating-data-center-patent/: “ It can be beneficial to distribute computing power closer to users. As such, data centers may be moved closer to users, with relevant content sent from a central facility out to regional data centers only once, and further transmissions occurring over shorter regional links. As a result, every request from a user need not result in a transmission cross-country and through the Internet backbone; network activity may be more evenly balanced and confined to local areas. ”
- Cisco proudly estimated the number of “ things ” connected to the Internet of Things as 50 billion by 2020. See Dave Evans, “ The Internet of Things: How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything, ” April 2011, https://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/innov/ IoT\_IBSG\_0411FINAL.pdf. To say nothing of the more or less charted waters of the Dark Net, accessible only through tools like the Tor browser.
- But as Jameson notes, it is the irregularity of opposing forces that breaks down the order of the nomos: “ With the religious wars, but perhaps also the English dominance of the sea — now leads to the Westphalian system of nation-states, in which, for the first time, the new nomos of state equality and friend-foe emerges. The friend-foe opposition is possible, indeed, only between equals: it includes Hegelian recognition, except that whereas Hegelian struggle aims to produce recognition, Schmitt ’ s version is enabled only after mutual recognition is secured. The individual analogy is with the duel. ” Fredric Jameson, “ Notes on the Nomos, ” South Atlantic Quarterly 104 (2005): 199 – 204, doi:10.1215/00382876-104-2-199.
- See Cornelia Vismann and Markus Krajewski, “ Computer Juridisms, ” Grey Room, no. 29 (Fall
2007): 90 – 109, doi:10.1162/grey.2007.1.29.90.
- Or perhaps less, given that Beijing has put rain under some measure of control, such as cloudbusting efforts just before the Beijing Olympics in 2008. More prosaic, Android is the most popular mobile operating system in China, but many versions in wide use are so forked that neither Google nor the Chinese central authorities can control or capitalize it directly. One solution proposed by the latter is COS (China Operating System) a linux based OS that could reduce reliance on “ American ” code. See http://www.china-cos.com/.
- That back doors allowing for espionage are to be found in both United States and Chinese routers should surprise no one, least of all Cisco or Huawei. For this reason both countries have severely curtailed the importation and official purchase of one another ’ s equipment. See http:// www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/27/us-china-tech-exclusive-idUSKBN0LV08720150227.
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