This also reminds me of Gerry Sussman’s talk “We Really Don’t Know How to Compute!”: https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI Granted, the as

This also reminds me of Gerry Sussman’s talk “We Really Don’t Know How to Compute!”: https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI Granted, the assumption he made is that computing power would grow increasingly cheap (which is basically the opposite of the point here), but I also wonder if techniques like those shown in that talk could be used effectively with a network of smaller, lower-power computers. (I mean, the talk does mention the use of small low-power computers specifically, but more in the context of e.g. sensor networks.)