Running a browser to connect to the cloud to run a browser to connect to the cloud to retrieve the contents of a single 2D page to recompress and send back to the original browser is now "the future of computing".https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1387065619011543040 …
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Perhaps we need a new "test", like the "Turing Test", but this time for when humans can no longer tell the difference between new technology and old technology. "Mighty", for example, is just a "dumb terminal" - technology we had in the 1970s. Yet it is called "the future".
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It doesn't really matter what happens behind the scenes.. what matters is if the user experience is significantly better for the user. If the answer is yes then even the rube goldberg machine can be better. What is the debate here, really?
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The debate is over whether you fix the problem, or build a new problem on top of it so now you have two problems. Although technical Silicon Valley has been doing the latter so many times, it's really more like twelve problems stacked on top of each other.
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