It's ironic that the most successful examples of effortless distributed computing are things like botnets and bitcoin cycle piracy. There's no reason why distr

It's ironic that the most successful examples of effortless distributed computing are things like botnets and bitcoin cycle piracy. There's no reason why distributed computing couldn't be made official, but there aren't all that many personal applications which could work across a public distributed systems and tolerate long latencies and built-in unreliability. It would be nice to see a massively redundant distributed web/cloud where every device was part of a global server system - as opposed to just a global system for accessing remote servers. But aside from the security issues, it would need a whole new set of protocols for handling extremely robust fault-tolerance. That's a bit more complex than setting up a spare webcam. (I tried that with a spare iPhone once, but it ran too hot for extended use.)