[LINK] If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:45 AM 11/08/2012, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Fascinating article about the technology behind google.
>
>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/all

"Rather than using big, beefy machines to run its 
search engine, it broke its software into pieces 
and spread them across an army of small, cheap 
machines. This is the fundamental idea behind 
GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable ­ and so many other 
Google technologies that would overturn the status quo. "

cue twilight zone theme
Check out Constructal Law of Physics. Just reading about it today. Fits.
Adrian Bejan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9izg6a_VsPc

Another thing I find interesting about this 
article is the importance of the back of house 
engineering work to make what we see at the 
interface level work and scale, as well as the 
evolutionary track of the people and the push of 
the ideas. In Google's case, they are building on 
the shoulders of giants, but they are now their own giants.

Jan


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