{"id":11597,"date":"2018-02-26T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/26\/news-5368\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:00:17","slug":"news-5368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/26\/news-5368\/","title":{"rendered":"How Connectivity Will Control Everything We Know: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:00:06 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by:
<\/strong>Jason Walker: Managing Director, Cloud and Service Provider Business Development, Schneider Electric<\/em><\/p>\n

At SxSW this year, connectivity is more important than ever before as AI, IoT, and edge computing play a bigger role in delivering high-quality video, music, and gaming to consumers each day. With this in mind, film, music and interactive content stand to suffer if connectivity is threatened.<\/p>\n

In the panel on March 9 at 2pm CT, How Connectivity Will Control Everything We Know<\/a>, Andrew Blum<\/a>, journalist, curator, and author of Tubes<\/em>, will offer his expertise into how infrastructure, technology, architecture and design are critical to connectivity in business today. In the meantime, however, I sat down with Andrew to discuss how the internet has changed and his research behind Tubes<\/em> to understand the role of technology infrastructure today.<\/p>\n

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  1. How did your book, national bestseller, Tubes, first come to fruition?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Andrew Blum: This was back in 2009, when I was writing mostly for Wired magazine. The term “cloud\u201d hadn\u2019t come into wide usage, Amazon and Google\u2019s data centers were still top secret, and a new undersea cable hadn\u2019t been built in nearly a decade. But\u2014two years\u00a0into the iPhone era\u2014I knew how much time I was spending online,\u00a0and I couldn\u2019t believe there wasn\u2019t a huge,\u00a0hidden, physical world somewhere back there, powering it all. I tried to figure out what would happen if\u00a0I yanked the cable from the wall, and followed it\u2014and there was, of course, the world I imagined.<\/p>\n

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    1. The internet has become such a necessary part of our day-to-day life, but we still see new developments that bring a level of shock and awe. What still surprises you about the internet and the connected world?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Blum: I used to say that what surprised me most was how small the Internet was\u2014that this relatively tight community was keeping the whole global thing stitched together. But now it often feels like the opposite: I\u2019m amazed by the extent to which the Internet’s infrastructure has filled out and diversified. Every month there seems to be a new undersea cable, a new way of thinking about content delivery, or a new trick to connect the edge and the core. \u00a0No wonder so many of the places where bandwidth used to be sparse it\u2019s now abundant (or close): from subway platforms in New York to jetliners over the Atlantic Ocean. The Internet is by no means finished (not that it ever will be), but I\u2019m surprised at how much it\u2019s expanded in the last decade.<\/p>\n

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      1. Since June 2012, the connected world has changed so much. Will we see any of that reflected in your next book on global machinery and weather observation? If so, what might that look like?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Blum: My new book\u2014which will be out next year\u2014is about weather forecasting, and the systems that power it. In 2012, the connected world was primarily used for moving information across distances. Today, networks and computers are much more likely to be used to understand and shape the world immediately around us, for everything from self-driving cars to home music systems. The weather forecast may be the \u201cOG\u201d IoT.<\/p>\n

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        1. Let\u2019s close with a prediction. The internet and the IoT are partly to blame for the rapid pace of data generation around the world. What do you see as the next trend to solve for this growth? The next big concern?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Blum: My main concern is how the current crop of Internet giants\u2014especially Facebook, Google, and Amazon\u2014will evolve or decline. Will their continued growth strangle the Internet\u2019s openness? Undoubtedly data is being generated at an astonishing pace, but who owns it and who does it serve? Will the services and entertainment the giants’ provide be compensation enough for their control? And, of course, if (or when) they decline, what will come next? In 1998, you might have seen the barest outlines of their future dominance. What outlines can we see in 2018?<\/p>\n

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          \"Jason <\/p>\n

          About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Jason Walker – Managing Director, Cloud & Service Provider Business Development, Schneider Electric<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Jason has held numerous positions in his 20+ years working in the data center industry, focusing on various end user customer segments and channels. His current focus with Schneider Electric is driving business development initiatives and sales and marketing strategy within the cloud and service provider segment.<\/p>\n

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          Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:00:06 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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