> Certainly the "edge" could be even closer to the end user than data centers would allow. Isn't this essentially what browser+js does? you download someones c

> Certainly the "edge" could be even closer to the end user than data centers would allow. Isn't this essentially what browser+js does? you download someones code and execute it locally. Reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1367/ https://xkcd.com/1367/ however, after typing that out I think I see what you really meant: if I'm running something compute intense, why can't I just borrow cpu from a couple neighbors instead of going all the way to the datacenter? Sandboxing would be important, but it would also be pretty hard to build applications that really take advantage of this model. concurrency on one machine is hard enough!