“the thing about a cloud, Tung-Hui Hu reminds us in his mesmerizing new book, “A Prehistory of the Cloud,” is that you can only see it from a distance.” – How the Metaphor of “the Cloud” Changed Our Attitude Toward the Internet – The New Yorker
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“The computer scientist Harry Reed, who worked on it, recalled that the ENIAC was “strangely, a very personal computer. Now we think of a personal computer as one which you carry around with you. The ENIAC was actually one that you kind of lived inside. So instead of you holding a computer, the computer held you.”” – Beyond Pong: why digital art matters