Cloud computing, I think, can work if we make compute clouds completely public and accept David Brin's thesis in 'The Open Society' that all privacy is a thing of the past.
Short of that, cloud computing is an exceptionally powerful tool - the most powerful technological means yet created in human history - for an unaccountable elite to take control of all personal and corporate information.
It's going to be an interesting next few decades.
@natecull
Hot take:
Cloud computing would be great if it ran on foglets (i.e., was literally cloud computing). (Or, more practically: if we distributed computing across many tiny sandboxed user-owned low-power devices, & service providers actually owned none of the hardware.)
But, until I own the hardware that serves Netflix to myself and my neighbours, I cannot trust Netflix to act in my best interests. And, were Netflix acting in my interests, its centralization would conflict with its own.
@vertigo @natecull
Does it run on the ESP82xx?
I spent some time writing a logic-programming system intended to be distributed across a bunch of those cheap SoCs, with the idea that they'd be embedded in walls and clothing. ($8 isn't cheap enough to do that, but the ESP82xx looks like it'll be the parent of whatever device puts wifi into cereal box toys and anti-theft systems.)
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Vertigo