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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Data Space | ||
| Computer storage and processor time rented by the user. |
This is a very early reference to what is now called "cloud computing".
| In minutes, he had traced through three changes of carrier and found a place to do his intermediate computing. The Comsats rented processor time almost as cheaply as ground stations, and an automatic payment transaction (through several dummy accounts set up over the last several years) gave him sole control of a large data space within milliseconds of his request. |
| From True Names,
by Vernor Vinge. Published by Dell Binary Star in 1981 Additional resources -
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