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John McCarthy: Father of cloud computing dies

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If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility… The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry.

John McCarthy speaking at the MIT Centennial in 1961