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I think people's perception of "computer" is not advancing alongside technology increases.
Everyone arguing about "Moore's Law" is always focusing on the individual PC as their target for investigation while computational power is still rapidly increasing. Its in a much more distributed fashion than the times of yore & Moore. Focusing on individual devices is pointless. Soon we're liable to be computing on glorified screens with hardly any graphics processing capabilities or computation capabilities and it will all happen somewhere far away.
Look at the overall network, the vast array of servers and clouds and the massive computational power of our planet- its skyrocketing at a breakneck pace. Who cares about transistor size, cpu speed, all that shit when in 5 seconds of interfacing with the internet you're liable to pull data from 5,000 different sources with an astronomical number of data points.
I don't get how cloud computing can really beat having your own powerful PC. No matter how powerful the server your connecting to is, won't the limitations imposed by distance and the speed of light always make it preferable for the computation to be done within a chip a few cm across rather than a server hundreds of miles away?
For gaming it's definitely better to run games locally. But I remotely access my office computer from laptops and can hardly tell that I'm using a remote connection.
And also right now with us on this website, there is computing going on keeping the site running and transmitting the info across the network. The computing of our personal devices are one part of that.
requires infrastructure investment however. which means state capacity. unless the neoliberal order folds i see that being a hard limit for universal cloud computing outside of major urban areas.