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managing them and the millions of new workers who constitute China's
army of knowledge workers is an entirely different challenge. From con-
struction to operation, from maintenance to support, cloud computing
makes enormous demands on labor markets and workplace practices. To
add these demands to a society already in the throes of labor upheavals
across the country will certainly tax China's leadership for years to come.
This overview of cloud computing has covered key features of its geneal-
ogy, deining elements, key characteristics, and major exemplars. The next
chapter builds on this foundation by examining how cloud computing is
promoted in marketing and myth, and describes why it is important for
supporters to fashion this complex, but nonetheless banal, technology
into the technological sublime.