“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 computers haven’t really got smaller; they’ve got much, much larger, from the satellite relays we consult every time we get GPS directions to the vast server farms in windowless sheds on ring roads which we have chosen to call “the cloud”. That this computation is less visible than it was in Reed’s day, when an observer could follow the progress of a calculation in blinking lights across the room, doesn’t make it less pervasive.” – Beyond Pong: why digital art matters
“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