Sadly there's very little value in reading this article, insofar as it contains no useful insights or lessons but rather is simply an exercise in throwing stones at someone's life-work, and, near as I can tell, it comes from out of left field.
Mostly this article makes me feel bad for its author. He must have spent a non-trivial amount of time writing this piece, and it serves no end. I suppose I just can't fathom why it made him feel good to write it.
"Lanier's strident warnings of giant mainframes run by a few to control the many missed so many critical trends that it now sounds like 1980s science-fiction. "
...except for the part where it's a pretty decent description of "cloud computing". What is a datacenter but a modern mainframe?
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 12.3 ms ] threadMostly this article makes me feel bad for its author. He must have spent a non-trivial amount of time writing this piece, and it serves no end. I suppose I just can't fathom why it made him feel good to write it.
...except for the part where it's a pretty decent description of "cloud computing". What is a datacenter but a modern mainframe?