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Re:The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution by mslot on Monday October 13, 2014 @07:39AM (#8448290)
Sounds cool an all, but mesh networks are slow and very insecure, the blockchain doesn't scale and thus cannot remain fully decentralized, and there's no practical way to run a trusted autonomous agent in an untrusted environment.

Computer science researchers have been working on and dreaming about these ideas for decades. It's great that some of them have found real-world applications, but that doesn't mean a revolution is near. It will be just as hard as it used to be.

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