We are heading for Evil Startrek.
replyIt's quite difficult for me to visualise a non-dystopian future where our PCs are just mere screens and every compute happens on a remote cloud, owned by some corporation, charging you subscription fees to even add and multiply numbers.
replyI'm actually kind of surprised that hasn't happened by now even ignoring AI. Governments and marketers would love to be able to spy on literally everything you do, the copyright cartels would finally achieve their fantasy of full control over all hardware, and there really are benefits that it could offer to users (zero-effort backups, transparent access from anywhere, cost savings from dynamically switching from a single core for emails to many cores and a fast GPU for gaming).
we have already gone through multiple cycles of remote and edge compute (mainframe to pc, pc to cloud, cloud to phone). as the software/hardware landscape changes, the economics of what can be run on what device will change accordingly. I very much doubt that it will permanently go one way.
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