{"id":22990,"date":"2016-12-24T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=22990"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:55:25","slug":"tyranny-and-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/tyranny-and-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny and the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">Only one thing worries me about the cloud: It facilitates state control because Cloud Computing reverses the decentralization (distribution) of computer power that heralded the internet. I think I got this fear from Cory Doctorow and his &#8220;<a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg\">The coming war on general computing<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">Anyway, maybe it is just a phase. Distributed Computing&nbsp;may very well be making a comeback as we see the end of <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/a16z.com\/2016\/12\/16\/the-end-of-cloud-computing\/\">Cloud Computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">&#8220;World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian and military participation.&#8221; -Marshal McLuhan<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one thing worries me about the cloud: It facilitates state control because Cloud Computing reverses the decentralization (distribution) of computer power that heralded the internet. I think I got this fear from Cory Doctorow and his &#8220;The coming war on general computing.&#8221; Anyway, maybe it is just a phase. Distributed Computing&nbsp;may very well be &#8230; <a title=\"Tyranny and the Cloud\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/tyranny-and-the-cloud\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tyranny and the Cloud\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134,33,10,15,156,25],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-22990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-computing","category-militaria","category-politics","category-security","category-words","tag-processed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-5YO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23008,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/hail-the-maintainers\/","url_meta":{"origin":22990,"position":0},"title":"Hail the Maintainers","author":"Limbic","date":"December 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I am finally clearing out some old Instapaper articles. 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