Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Miasma computing

« Silicon Death Valley | Main | Understanding Amazon Web Services » Miasma computing May 27, 2008 The metaphor of "the cloud" is a seductive one, but it's also dangerous. It not only suggests that our new utility-computing system is detached from the physical (and political) realities of our planet, but it also lends to that system an empyrean glow. The metaphor sustains and extends the old ideali

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Nicholas Carr predicts, "Those drawings always reminded me of the ancient maps of the known world, the edges of which were marked with the legend "Beyond Here There Be Dragons." The dragons are stirring."

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Nicholas Carr alerts:"The metaphor of "the cloud" seems to have been derived from those schematic drawings of corporate computing systems that use stylized images of clouds to represent the Internet - that vast, ill-defined digital mass that lies beyond the firewall."

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瘴気コンピューティング、いや「毒ガスコンピューティング」とでも訳すべきか。さすが御大。