The Clouds (part 3 of 3)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2013
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Our series concludes with some revelations. Metahaven uses the story of Wikileaks to show us the infrastructure of the cloud and its super-jurisdictional powers. The BBC’s Paul Mason takes us on a wild tour of China in his novel Rare Earth. And a pile of iPhones brings your host a moment of clarity.
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| 1:26.6 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
| 1:31.2 | The following installment is called The Clouds, Part 3. |
| 1:37.0 | The Cloud makes one of its first appearances in a nondescript diagram in a 1996 MIT research paper. |
| 1:51.0 | It's a simple visual, A series of routers linked together by |
| 1:54.9 | Internet Protocol give birth to a cloud of networks. Today this diagram is |
| 2:01.8 | woefully inadequate. |
| 2:03.0 | Almost everything we do, both online and offline, connects to the cloud. |
| 2:09.0 | In many ways, what I set out to do with this radio series was to update that diagram, flesh it out, |
| 2:15.7 | make the immaterial material, make the incorpural real. |
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