Laurie Anderson The Cloud Lyrics

The new headquarters of the National Security Agency is finally almost finished. This huge data centre in Utah collects information – and has clearance to bug the systems of individual citizens. And to engage in sabotage, using subversive software. The United States is the first country in the history of the world, to collect and store information about its own citizens on this scale. Until now, records were mostly accounts of the lives of kings and pharaohs – who also stored their records in massive desert complexes A lot of the information is stored in The Cloud. But the likelihood, that your story is going to get mixed up with someone else's story, is extremely high

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