I really thought we'd have grid computing, aka utility computing. Running our self-contained software agents, persisting data and state in ubiquitous tuplespace

I really thought we'd have grid computing, aka utility computing. Running our self-contained software agents, persisting data and state in ubiquitous tuplespaces. That's my excuse for being so slow to grasp "cloud". When AWS made EC2 public, I really didn't understand why anyone would want to use it. Cloud era "serverless" just pisses me off. The applicable cliche is "Every sufficiently complex C project recreates LISP, poorly." It's seems like we're doomed to repeatedly reinvent the past. Championed by youngsters who never read the book. Maybe this explains "worse is better". I know, I know. I've become the old crank. All you noisy kids get off my lawn.