this is all true, but consider a computing model that almost was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

this is all true, but consider a computing model that almost was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_langua... telescript was kinda of weird, but wildly ahead of its time. the idea was decentralized services and commercial activity, but centralizing computation due to power/energy efficiency. it was like a inverse jvm born at the transition from arpanet->nsfnet->internet, which greatly deregulated commercial activity. it was also born when mobile devices were almost tractible, though 14 years before the iphone. it almost birth the idea of an app store, except "apps" would be decentralized services people send/recv.