There’s an app(liance) for that
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 08-12-2009
Cecilia Kang, who writes a blog about technology policy for the Washington Post, reports today that FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has been reading my book The Big Switch. Genachowski finds (as I did) that the story of the buildout of the electric grid in the early decades of the last century can shed light on today’s buildout of a computing grid (or, as we’ve taken to saying, “cloud”). Though, obviously, electric power and information processing are very different technologies, their shift from a local supply model to a network supply model has followed a similar pattern and will have similar…
