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I remember, when I first read this story, thinking how quaint this notion was:

"In his father's youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called."

Yet here we are, consolidating our planet's computing power to a handful of cloud computing providers.



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