May 2011
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The Next Men..?
A long time ago I read a 1960s science fiction short story by Howard Fast called “The First Men”, in which a government project, under pressure of war, assembles gifted children from around the world and creates a radical learning environment isolated from their parents and native culture, in which they gradually develop super-human abilities and ultimately transcend our...
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Is cloud computing like mass transit..?
I’ve been thinking today that - leaving all rational, legitimate objections to cloud computing aside for a minute and just speaking about how it’s perceived ‘psychologically’ - cloud computing, (or at least SaaS) is a lot like choosing to travel by train or air rather than drive: You know consciously that letting someone else take you there is far safer than you driving...