A little cold water on Cloud Computing.
The 'World Wide Computer'—Another HAL?: "He sees mankind increasingly laboring for this machine, continually feeding it with data about our every keystroke, e-mail, purchase, or movement. And in time this global computer will get smarter, learning more and more about the patterns of humanity and the world. Carr calls this process "the transfer of our intelligence into the machine," something he finds troubling.
Indeed, Carr worries that individuals could eventally become just neurons in this global brain or, reverting to his 19th century analogy, "cogs in an intellectual machine whose workings and ends are beyond us." Scary? No doubt. But as we prepare for the World Wide Computer, it's not a bad idea to consider its dark side."
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