>Dyson misses the point somewhat about virtual machines and cloud computing, which are much more about relocatable and rescalable computing — rather than having to house and maintain computers to handle the peak computational load, we can run software remotely as a service, and purchase resources on an as-needed basis; the providers of these services can reroute and reallocate resources in real-time without any intervention by or impact on their customers. There’s something here in Dyson’s statement alluding to parallel processing...
oliculipolicula•1d ago
Further Quaker background by Freeman Dyson's son George who wrote that book having grown up there
https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/george-dyson-tavern-and-meeti...
*IAS was an open-maxxed Bell Labs
https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/700.php
>Dyson misses the point somewhat about virtual machines and cloud computing, which are much more about relocatable and rescalable computing — rather than having to house and maintain computers to handle the peak computational load, we can run software remotely as a service, and purchase resources on an as-needed basis; the providers of these services can reroute and reallocate resources in real-time without any intervention by or impact on their customers. There’s something here in Dyson’s statement alluding to parallel processing...
Paradoxes for outwitting the uni-context..