Network Computers

Via Mesh Sandbox: The more I think about the idea of combining a mesh with network computing, the cooler it sounds, but there is a caveat: the technological challenges would be massive. A lot of the commenters from Slashdot on Mike’s post above are well informed from a technical point of view, and pointed out several of these challenges, including latency and privacy. It seems though that for the most part, they are surprisingly ignorant to the absolute lack of bandwidth and computing in most third world countries - especially in rapidly emerging Asian economies where the demand is far out-stripping the supply.

I think Rajesh Jain puts it best:

“To understand the future of centralised computing, we need to think not of the first 700 million users of computers, but the next billion users.”