Why America deliberately avoids the "control" problem of cloud computing

"Cloud computing" is undoubtedly the IT business in the past 30 years, a few "deeply rooted" vocabulary. The last term should be "e-commerce".

In the 2011, cloud computing is still hot, and has entered the "gets" phase, a flourishing scene has been presented. Cloud computing and the Internet of things, become the United States, the European Union, Japan, Korea and other countries to formulate a new round of national development Strategy, one of the core elements. As we all know, these strategies, no matter what appearance, will be the future "network power" as the commanding heights of national competitiveness.

In the era of "cloud computing", most of the people who can see are the promised preachers and the eager actors. Although there are still some skeptical ignorant, but with those "sensible" compared to the logic of their questioning, and the logic of the sermon no two thinking of the "cloud computing" difficulties, is here.

Two voices, a common blind spot

When new concepts such as cloud computing and IoT become the key words in structuring national development strategies, there are two voices to be concerned about: one is to urge and call for the speedy establishment of a national development strategy for cloud computing and Internet of things, or called "appeals".

The second may be called the "questioning faction", the main point of view is that the United States to the cloud computing, the Internet as a national development strategy, its purpose and purpose, is still in the context of globalization, the use of IT technology embedded strategic infrastructure opportunities, the use of data resources across the border rapid flow of opportunities to maximize the "back door", for intrusion , to acquire and threaten the political, economic, cultural and social life of other countries, to retain sufficient control to obtain the monopoly, exclusive and leading discourse power of the information society in the future.

The views of the two factions are not diametrically opposed. "Appeal" More from the perspective of tracking the strategic advantages of developed countries, targeted development of strategic emerging industries, put forward to the development trend of the study and "follow-style" strategy and other viewpoints; "Questioning faction" from the angle of ideology and motivation, calmly analyzed the industrial policy of developed countries and national Strategy, Inevitably has the ideological color and the control desire standpoint.

However, this paper holds that there is a common blind spot in these two viewpoints: the developed countries, which are represented by the United States, have not been thoroughly explored, and the "logic of development", as well as the "ideological basis" revealed by the "Development logic".

This "ideological basis" is that, for a long time, the science and technology equate to the core power of social progress, and strongly exaggerate and disseminate the single scientific progressive value, is the moral aura of the United States to maintain the economic form of military industrial complex, and also the deep ideological source of the recent weakness of the American economy

With the help of cloud computing and the specific problem of Internet of things, we can see that the United States "rely on science and technology to seize the commanding heights," the true face, to help insight into the United States hundred remaining always adhere to the technology, economic, social and cultural development of the inherent logic, and then enrich the "independent innovation" of the connotation of the struggle for "network power" concept and make useful explorations.

The "subtext" of cloud computing

"Cloud computing" is a product of the more than 60-year development of computational theory, and the central idea of this theory is to make unremitting efforts to "put human thought and behavior into the law of physics". This effort, of course, has reaped a great deal of scientific and technological achievements, but it has also been overshadowed by a strong "science first" principle.

Cloud computing, in the specific technological innovation in fact, nothing. The principle is that large-scale parallel computing, distributed data processing and virtualization technology in a large-scale synthesis. This comprehensive assumption has two: one is in the computational capacity, storage capacity and large-scale network bandwidth bottlenecks, after effective mitigation, machines and machines, terminals and terminals, and even the full interconnection between people, will bring irreversible globalization process, and quickly form the social, organizational, production, life of the important driving force of change The other is that, with the full deployment of fully interconnected, computing and data, computing and storage, computing and service processes can be separated in order to gain a wide range of flexibility and diversity.

These two hypotheses, to a large extent, describe the current challenges and the status quo faced by most of the countries in the late industrialized and information society, and also depict an exciting picture of the future. However, these two hypotheses have deliberately avoided and blurred the question of "dominant power" and "control power". From the history and economic pattern of the military industrial complex in the past 60 years in the United States, it is always the "deep-rooted" thinking habit of American society and Government to downplay and blur the "dominant power" and "control power" in public opinion and publicity. This kind of thinking habits, in the academic circles, the public opinion and the press, is beautified as the "American Spirit" the progressive symbol, beautification is the modern human civilization gene.

More importantly, this "fade and blur" is not intentional, but a long time in the western mode of thinking inherent in a magnificent belief, that is, "science represents Rationality", "Science brings progress." The starting point of this belief dates back to the renaissance of 500 years ago.

Careful inspection covers the germination of capitalism, large machine production, modern industrial civilization and the information society, can clearly see such a "Science supremacy" of the development trajectory, this trajectory is the cloud computing discourse carried by the cultural genes, is to build cloud computing "discourse right" of "subtext."

The future of "cloud computing"

There is a problem of "ownership" and "control" in any development, which is the fundamental problem of development. Although there is a naïve and extensive discussion on the "leading power" and "right to development", it is not equal to the problem that this problem can be degraded to the strategy of "first development after reform" and thus cannot be surpassed.

Cloud computing will become the post-industrial era, the information industry to complete the social restructuring, cultural remodeling, business restructuring, political restructuring of the important signs. The general cloud computing State, will promote the social structure, business organizations, government functions, as well as personal life, public space, the quality of change, the core characteristics of this change is: self-organization, personalized, symbiotic evolution of the ecological atmosphere has matured, human development and environmental harmony has found a dynamic balance, to the central, The organic mode of the network; uncertainty is no longer an enemy but an opportunity and a chance; openness is the eternal theme.

In this picture, any desire for "domination" or "control" is fatal, terrifying and shameful. However, it is precisely this point that needs to be considered: to build the ideological base to adapt to the ecology of cloud computing, not which person, which group unique power, it belongs to all netizens.

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