{"id":774,"date":"2007-04-17T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=774"},"modified":"2007-04-17T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T14:50:53","slug":"announcing_the_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Announcing “The Big Switch”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

Connect the dots:<\/p>\n

Thomas Edison<\/p>\n

The Dalles<\/p>\n

Tim Berners-Lee<\/p>\n

Crowdsourcing<\/p>\n

Virtual Machines<\/p>\n

Marc Benioff<\/p>\n

Automattic<\/p>\n

Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company<\/p>\n

Personalized Search<\/p>\n

AdWords<\/p>\n

Nikola Tesla<\/p>\n

Increasing Returns to Scale<\/p>\n

Optical Fiber<\/p>\n

Ray Ozzie<\/p>\n

Fisk Street Station<\/p>\n

Department of Defense<\/p>\n

CERN Grid<\/p>\n

Web 2.0<\/p>\n

Danny Hillis<\/p>\n

Henry Adams<\/p>\n

BitTorrent<\/p>\n

ICANN<\/p>\n

John von Neumann<\/p>\n

Chad Hurley<\/p>\n

Spacewar<\/p>\n

World’s Columbian Exposition<\/p>\n

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud<\/p>\n

Yochai Benkler<\/p>\n

William Kemmler<\/p>\n

Eric Schmidt<\/em><\/p>\n

. . . and the future appears.<\/p>\n

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It’s coming<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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