Edward Snowden and the Power of Cloud Computing

Allison Stanger has an excellent piece over at Quartz titled “Why Edward Snowden is not a whistleblower.” Setting aside the title’s assertion, the Leng Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College makes a compelling case for the revolutionary power of cloud computing.

Cloud computing itself isn’t exactly new, as anyone who remembers the era of mainframe computing and dumb terminals knows. What is new is the scale of cloud platforms and the broad access to computing power and software applications those platforms offer…


The announcement earlier this week that IBM will soon offer Watson Supercomputer cloud services to interested businesses drives home the point.  But there’s a clear tradeoff that accompanies such computing power, at least until the law catches up with the technology, Stanger notes:…

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