The end of the Information Age


	The end of the Information Age

JICWyllie

5-14-2009 1:13 PM

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1-collapse, 1-insolvancy, 1-peak oil, 2-increase, 2-risks, 3-forecast, 4-intl, internet

JICWyllie says:

Cloud Computing is definately for the birds. Perhaps some low bandwidth, P2P networks could survive the coming energy crunch.

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5-16-2009 1:27 PM

allenmarkowski

Good clip & great article Jan. I can truthfully say I was not aware it took so much energy to keep this whole thing up & running.

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