FEEDBACK
Origin:
1920, in the electronics sense, from feed + back (adj.). Transferred use, information about the results of a process is attested by 1955.
Definition:
The furnishing of data concerning the operation or output of a machine to an automatic control device or to the machine itself, so that subsequent or ongoing operations of the machine can be altered or corrected.
Concept in relation to data farm:
The existence of the cloud depends on input from users into the system and continual use of the cloud in order to function and continue to grow and improve. Feedback, in the instance of the cloud, is user input of data into the system and the retrieval of this data by them or others where the process then repeats. This creates a feedback loop where users are forced to repeat the cycle in order to be productive once they begin using the cloud or online resources which in turn forces the cloud to grow bigger (in terms of servers and data centers required) in order to handle the increasing amount of data being stored on the cloud and new users joining the could. The cloud then becomes reliant on the users using the system and services it provides as without new data and input the cloud starts to lose purpose and usefulness. This process of a feedback loop creates an infrastructure that is ever expanding in a sense, similar to the ever expanding universe.
"In this sense, the system could not be anything less than 100-percent foolproof, with compulsory regeneration its maxim and material loss negligible or nonexistent within the closed state. Inhabited space was in the faithful service of closing all loops: a capsule furnished with units embedded in the walls to collect urine, carbon dioxide, and floating human waste - all necessary parts in order to accumulate waste and facilitate feedback."