McCarthy predicted cloud computing in 1961

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/425623/the-cloud-imperative/

“Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility,” Professor John McCarthy said at MIT’s centennial celebration in 1961. “Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system … Certain subscribers might offer service to other subscribers … The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry.”

So it can't be that bad hein?

And this is the guy who invented Lisp!

Do you want more interesting reads? Try this page http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html

It talks about solving global warming. Take that, COP21! Take that, Al Gore!

hahahah

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