> Will we continue to bounce back and forwards forever, as network and hardware technology leapfrog each other? Is one model better than the other? It actually

> Will we continue to bounce back and forwards forever, as network and hardware technology leapfrog each other? Is one model better than the other? It actually is task-dependent. There will always be tasks that work best at a centralized mainframe (e.g. weather forecast requires a supercomputer), while others will benefit from distributed local processing (moving the pointer on the screen following mouse input). For the tasks in between, the changing ratios between processing and transmission speed in the distributed points will influence where it's most practical to do the computing, which is the effect you have seen.