- Herbert G. Wells, The Time Machine (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984).
- Perhaps the most significant Cloud megastructure is not one built to house the higher brain functions of a private global platform, but one built to house the intelligence and surveillance operations of a global platform in the form of a state, namely, the United States, and specifically the National Security Agency ’ s Utah Data Center. See “ Utah Data Center, ” Wikipedia, November 7, 2014, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah\_Data\_Center, and the helpful “ NSA Utah Data Center: Serving Our Nation’s Intelligence Community, ” NSA Utah Data Center, https://nsa.gov1.info/ utah-data-center/. If there ’ s one building the in the world where The Stack lives, it might be here. I think not, actually.
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- Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, trans. Nancy Margaret Paul and William Scott Palmer (London: G. Allen & , 1912), 276.
- Franz Kafka, “ An Imperial Message, ” in The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, trans. Edwin Muir and Willa Muir (New York: Schocken Books, 1961), 1 – 2.
- In some objects, you can see the entire Stack at once.
- See “ CeNSE, ” Wikipedia, March 21, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeNSE. If Cisco had Planetary Skin and HP has Central Nervous System of the Earth, then we eagerly anticipate claims of the Planetary Immune System and the Earth Lymph Node Network.
- Beginning in 1913, the International Map Project (also known as the Millionth Map, because of its use of 1:1,000,000 scale standards, and by the number of total maps necessary to complete the set) sought to subdivide the Earth ’ s surface according to a standard alphanumeric gridded matrix of longitudes and latitudes. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established, and a few thousand maps were produced using the standard system. Germany withdrew in 1914 as the European powers were more preoccupied with reinscribing borders than capturing their status. Later it was assumed by the United Nations in 1953, after which it lost momentum.
- Cory Doctorow, “ Lockdown: The Coming War on General-purpose Computing, ” Boing Boing, January 10, 2012, http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html.
- This is not lost on the handful of Internet of Things consortia that are positioning for a position of “ generative entrenchment ” with regards to ubiquitous computing protocols, languages, and standards. Among these are the All Seen Alliance (Qualcomm, Microsoft, LG, Cisco, among others), the Industrial Internet Consortium (GE, Intel, IBM, AT & T, among many others) and the Open Interconnect Consortium (Intel, Samsung, Broadcom, Dell, and others). Just as for the circuit versus packet-switching battles during the early years of what became the Internet, for the emergent Internet of Things, which standards can achieve dominant platform status and which are forgotten will help determine the winners and losers among all the alliance member companies. Bruce Sterling argues that the interests end-users and consumers will likely not be wellserved by how such standards are adopted. See his book The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things (Moscow: Strelka Press, 2014). One lesson of TCP/IP ’ s adoption over OSI is that whatever platform can make use of existing systems fastest and easiest has an advantage over those that demand all new implementation. What turn out to be the real “ killer apps ” of Internet of Things (indeterminate at best at the time of writing) will in turn drive what (and who) is linked with when, where and when, and so it may be that end-user adoption will be a function of needs after all. However, whether those “ end users ” are advertising companies, search engines, or actual persons is an equally undecided question
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