It seemed heretical to think of Karl Marx. But looking at the roomful of computers running automated trading models that themselves scan custom-formatted machine-readable financial news stories to help make decisions, you didn’t have to be a Marxist to appreciate his observation that industry will strive to “produce machines by means of machines” — as well as his prediction that the “more developed the capital,” the more it would seek the “annihilation of space by time.”
via The Architecture Issue – Data Center Overload – NYTimes.com, by Tom Vanderbilt.
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