Ourtserhout's paper perhaps comes from his vision for RAMCloud as well ... in which he bet on network latency going ultra low over time that accessing memory on

Ourtserhout's paper perhaps comes from his vision for RAMCloud as well ... in which he bet on network latency going ultra low over time that accessing memory on another machine was fast enough to enable whole new categories of applications to emerge. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2806887 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2806887