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Re:Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day – 40 Years Ago by shalabhc on Sunday December 03, 2017 @03:22AM (#15836606)
You can buy the future in hardware - assuming you have a design. Given you can already buy compute power over the cloud today, 'buying hardware from the future' could perhaps mean a different architecture than just 'a large number of CPUs'.
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Re:Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day – 40 Years Ago by Someone on Sunday December 03, 2017 @08:42AM (#15837517)
Perhaps, but the cloud adds unavoidable latency that may be a bigger loss than what can be won with increased computing power.
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