The Clouds (part 2 of 3)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We continue our journey to the center of the cloud, by way of the earth: Rare Earth. China controls 95% of the market for the 17 Rare Earth elements that power our invisible technologies so your host decides to pay a visit to the Ganzhou region, to see the illegal mines in the with his own eyes.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
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| 1:26.6 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. The following installment is called The Clouds, Part 2. |
| 1:37.0 | There are two ways you can tell the story of the cloud. |
| 1:44.0 | The first one is kind of simple. |
| 1:46.0 | Our files and applications move from the computers on our desks |
| 1:50.0 | to the servers in the basement, |
| 1:52.0 | then to co-location facilities, and finally to the cloud. |
| 1:56.8 | It's a boring innocuous tale. |
| 1:59.7 | But there's another way to tell the story, in this story the cloud changes our relationship |
| 2:05.5 | with our computers along with the very infrastructure of the internet. In this |
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