[Industry] The Economist - Technology Quarterly: February 2024

[donald]

The Economist Technology Quarterly came out earlier this month, its a great read. Covers a lot of topics in Technology in several well written articles.


Users of the internet need not think about its physical underpinnings
Advances in physical storage and retrieval made the cloud possible
The internet got better and faster by moving data closer to users
Data centres improved greatly in energy efficiency as they grew massively larger
The physical borders of the digital world
Satellites offer an important alternative to the wired internet
The internet is integrated into virtually every aspect of life
Sources and acknowledgments

[Dr Cheeto Cornchip]

Here's another great technology read from a few years back.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... story.html

"The long-running feud between Elon Musk’s space company and its fierce competitor United Launch Alliance took a bizarre twist this month when a SpaceX employee visited its facilities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and asked for access to the roof of one of ULA’s buildings..."

"...Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive, has called the failure [explosion of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 1] 'the most difficult and complex' the company has ever had. About a week after the explosion, he pleaded with the public to turn in video or audio recordings of the blast and said that the company has not ruled out sabotage as a factor.

'Particularly trying to understand the quieter bang sound a few seconds before the fireball goes off,' he wrote on Twitter. 'May come from rocket or something else'..."

"...This week, 10 Republican House members, many friendly to ULA, told NASA that SpaceX should not be leading the investigation and that authority should be turned over to the federal government."