
Americano: will cloud computing create a new economic boom?
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I Was a Kid, and Had Kids at 12
In the eighties, people were telling regan that the united states needed to mount a mass of federal subsidies for computing. Japan's government had decided to spend, in teda's dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing the computer industry and he would have none of it. He wanted to unlease the apples of the world. There's going to be more companies like apple. And our twenties, the idea that they own the future forever, amazon or facebook, is naive. We haven't had any materials revolution since the age of chemistry was launched. A hundred and forty years ago. We're on the cusp of that kind of sort of huge inflection in new kinds
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