Notes

1. Some differentiate between “cloud computing” and “cloud services.” These distinctions are largely unnecessary for the purposes of this book.

2. Roads were to be 8 feet wide if straight, 16 feet if curved. Gregory Aldrete, Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii and Ostia (Greenwood, 2004), p. 36.

3. William Kaszynksi, The American Highway: The History and Culture of Roads in the United States (McFarland & Company, 2000).

4. Adolf Berger, “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 32, Part 2 (1953): 763.

5. Jerome Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient Rome (Yale University Press, 1940), p. 49.

6. Sir William Smith, ed., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2nd ed. (Taylor and Walton, 1848), p. 258.

7. W. C. Firebaugh, Inns of Greece and Rome (Benjamin Blom, 1928), p. 41.

8. August Lau, Pompeii: Its Life and Art (Macmillan, 1899), p. 392.

9. Peter J. Aicher, Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome (Bolchazy-Carducci, 1995).

10. Richard Dorf, ed., The Technology Management Handbook (CRC Press in conjunction with IEEE Press, 1999).

11. Deborah M. Gordon, “The Regulation of Foraging Activity in Red Harvester Ant Colonies,” The American Naturalist, Vol. 159, No. 5, May 2002, pp. 509–518, www.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/gordon2002.pdf.

12. Eira Hayward, “Game Changing,” Capacity (April 2011).

13. Nick Wingfield, “Phones Get Game Power in the Cloud,” New York Times, December 8, 2011. www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/technology/phones-and-tablets-getting-game-power-in-the-cloud.html ...

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