[p2p-research] Dana Blankenhorn on Cory Doctorow's dislike of cloud computing...

[Kevin Carson]

On 9/3/09, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4759

I think Doctorow's right about this.  We need a computer network
that's resilient enough, in a time of Peak Oil and economic collapse,
to survive a long period of rolling brownouts and cascading Chapter 11
bankruptcies.

That means primarily, IMO, resilient local meshworks organized on a
last-mile basis, including local bulletin board systems, that will
make it easier for people to link their hard drives via local user
networks when centralized server networks collapse or are
intermittently functional.  In such an eventuality, the data stored on
hard drives may be the equivalent of the manuscripts stored in the
monastic libraries after Rome fell.


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