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It’s not news that US broadband speeds ain’t world-class. For confirmation, check the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Cooporation and Development) extensive data sets culled from the advertised speeds of ISPs across many countries. The spreadsheet I looked at, based on … Continue reading →

There’s been a long-standing competition  between centralization and distribution, two important but opposing ways of designing computer and communications systems.   With cloud computing (hosted services  in mammoth data centers)  the pendulum is moving back to centralization. There’s also been … Continue reading →