Aiming at Nothing

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Archive for October 9th, 2006

09 Oct

Information Factories

There’s a fascinating story at Wired about the efforts of Ask.com, Google and even Microsoft to build ever-larger information “clouds” out of massively parallel computer networks. Author George Gilder also describes the difficulty of building, powering and cooling these behemoth systems. Fair warning: This is a long article (five pages); if you suffer from the [...]

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