Why Labor as a Service is as Cloudy as it Gets This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Computing infrastructure gets all the attention, but a growing crop of startups (and AWS) is showing that human brainpower in the cloud is the real deal.

When thinking about cloud computing, it’s easy to get caught up in the technological innovations. Processors, servers, virtualization, provisioning engines and other components continue to evolve and make computing via the cloud more efficient and more powerful. Often overlooked, however, is the tool that made all this high technology possible — the human brain. What if we could access that resource via the cloud, too? As it turns out, we can. Some call it “labor as [...]

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