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Side Glance: The Cloud and the Future |
How long, then, should we hold to these rules and not break up the game? As long as the game is going nicely.
—Epictetus, Discourses
A sublime thought, if happily timed, illumines an entire subject with the vividness of a lightning-flash.
—Longinus, On the Sublime
It’s very difficult to keep a computer busy all day. A billion times a second it’s looking around for a new task. No matter how many cat videos you watch, the computer still spends most of its time waiting for you to tell it which cat video you want to see next. This restlessness has been the driver of much of the recent innovation in technology.
I would be undermining my point that uncertainty dominates the digital arena if I were to write ...
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