The computing power and storage capacity of the Internet information factory is ubiquitous, enormous, and harbinger of continuing change in how we create and consume content.

George Gilder explores this meme in his article for Wired 14:10 where he writes, “The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you’ll ever use. Just last century – you remember it well, across the chasm of the crash – the PC was king. The mainframe was deposed and deceased. The desktop was the data center [...] Today Google rules a total database of hundreds of petabytes, swelled every 24 hours by terabytes of Gmails, MySpace pages, and dancing-doggy videos – a relentless march of daily deltas, each larger than the whole Web of a decade ago. To make sense of it all, Page and Brin – with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Barry “QVC” Diller’s Ask.com hot on their heels – are frantically taking the computer-on-a-chip and multiplying it, in massively parallel arrays, into a computer-on-a-planet.” Story continues here…