In the beginning, there was one big computer. Soon we started connecting to it using terminals ( the UNIX era). Next, we had personal computers, and this was the first time regular people owned hardware that did the work. Today we’re firmly in the Cloud Computing era, which means today’s world is centralized with a central cloud doing all the required processing. The truly amazing things about the cloud are a large percentage of all companies in the world now rely on the infrastructure, hosting, machine learning, and compute power of a very select few cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. But things got little stirred up when Peter Levine of Andressen Horowitz presented his interesting working theory at a16z; His presentation was titled “The End of Cloud Computing”(!!!) Read More

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