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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018315)" |
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| permits the easy spread and accumulation of links. Terror cells or social networks or |
| financial markets all lay out in this fashion. Wide-open, convenience-making links |
| are expanding, and they serve as a kind of global nervous system, more sensitive |
| with each passing generation. These lines of connection run two ways, of course: |
| Networks permit any of us to connect to nearly anywhere, and to unimaginable |
| technological power. But, at the same time, the world connects back to us. Wired |
| jihadis and currencies and bio bits - they're all tied in with us too. So yes: We're |
| murdering the exotic with our data connections and machines and discount plane |
| flights. Should we be surprised when, from time to time now, the exotic shows up |
| and murders us right back? |
| We've seen, now, the way in which that pulling connection between center and |
| periphery - that tension of our network - pulls apart old structures. And this is the |
| first, urgent Seventh Sense understanding: Connection changes the nature of an |
| object by placing it on this tense mesh. Connect a patient, a doctor, a flying machine, |
| a currency - each is twisted and changed as a result. Some become great. Others |
| snap, never to be rebuilt. Some adjust, painfully. The pulling network action |
| accounts for our greatest new fortunes but also the tumbling of old ideas and |
| institutions. This is why our age is so uneasy. This is also part of the picture of |
| network power we have to keep in mind, the image of a stretched skein plucking |
| apart old structures. Baran's fishnet grows, it locks everything it touches into a new |
| structure, one that resists the "arrest the usual suspects" sort of interruption. We've |
| said: Connection changes the nature of an object. To be connected to a Baran-style |
| system instead of a brush-cut 1950's AT&T system makes a difference. |
| The connected devices themselves are constantly improving. Back in Baran's day, |
| dozens of scientists counted themselves lucky to share a single computer. A few |
| decades later, the PC revolution gave everyone their own machine. And now, of |
| course, we each have many computers in our lives: phones, wired TVs, computers. |
| Because of connection, we have access to thousands of such devices in data |
| centers.107 We can touch them in an instant, a fusion of software and hardware and |
| connection that we are starting to know lean on as "everyware." This now |
| commonplace magic was formalized back in 1965 by Gordon Moore, one of the |
| founding engineers at Intel, who noticed the rather amazing fact that since the |
| introduction of integrated chips in 1959, the number of transistors on each tiny chip |
| had been doubling every two years, 108 It seemed hard to imagine this pace could |
| endure, but then it did and does, something known as Moore's Law. Back in 1997 |
| Andy Grove, who followed Moore as CEO of Intel, the chip giant, was named TIME's |
| Man of the Year. I wrote that story and I remember Grove telling me, in a |
| confessional spirit: "I never stopped thinking about the business. I worked |
| 107 And now, of course: Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail |
| Sellen Eds. Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020, (Redmond: |
| Microsoft Research Publication 2008) |
| 108 This now commonplace magic: Chris Mack, "The Multiple Lives of Moore's |
| Law: Why Gordon Moore's grand prediction has endured for 50 years", IEEE |
| Spectrum (March 30, 2015), accessible online. |
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