Electricity is like oxygen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzn37/2802221141/

Students Studying at Airport
Image from Paul Romer | chartercities.org

Thomas Edison’s
Electric Lamp

Pearl Street Station

Nikola Tesla
1856 - 1943
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_tesla

Niagara Falls

China’s Three Gorges Dam
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuan2003/516870884/

Control Data 3600 | 1963
0.483MHz CPU with 1.5MB memory

1977 Apple II Computer
1977 Advertisement from Scientific America

Office Computing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24509941@N00/368511463/

Pearl Street Station

Office Computing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24509941@N00/368511463/

The Netbook Revolution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24509941@N00/368511463/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503155065@N01/2538461633/

Smart Phones
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mastrobiggo/2414317157/

The Cloud

Google Server
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

http://www.datacentermap.com/

http://www.telegeography.com 2008

Paul Otlet | 1934

Yellow - Latin America
Red - Asia
Green - Europe/Africa/Asia
Blue - North America

Stephen Downes Ethan Zuckerman Anders Sandberg

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