Technology triumphs over humanity - the yahoo story

“Technology writer Nicholas Carr says the shift from personal computers to cloud computing is akin to the late 19th-century switch from electricity being generated locally to being delivered across power grids. The data centres built by Verizon, Facebook, Amazon and others are far more powerful than what preceded them. They also turn on-demand computing and access to data into a utility.”

Technology triumphs over humanity
http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/2016/07/29/technology-triumphs-over-humanity
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