The Buzz About Hive Computing: Putting Peer-to-Peer Computing to Work

Topics:
Electrical and Electronic
Tags:
Computing,
Internet,
P2P,
Peer To Peer (P2P),
Shirky
Source:
Geneer

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Overview: "Fifty years ago, Thomas Watson estimated there was a worldwide need for maybe five computers. We now know that that number was wrong. He overestimated by four." Author and peer-to-peer (P2P) pundit Clay Shirky, a partner with venture capital firm The Accelerator Group, recently uttered this provocative statement at O'Reilly's Peer-to-Peer conference. He was referring to former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson and his famous 1943 quote, which is often held up as an example of gross misunderstanding of market potential. Watson was looking at the new device from an old frame of reference: office calculators. Shirky is looking at computing today from a new frame of reference: hive computing.

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Format: PDF | Size: 181KB | Date: Apr 2001 | Pages: 30

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