Once upon a time at a town hall at Google about 7 or 8 years ago where the SVP over GCP was present a man wiser than I asked the question, "In computing the pen

Once upon a time at a town hall at Google about 7 or 8 years ago where the SVP over GCP was present a man wiser than I asked the question, "In computing the pendulum has already swung a couple of times between client-centric and server-centric. What are we doing to prepare ourselves for the next swing back into client-centric?" The SVP responded as if the guy asking that question had just stepped out of an alien spacecraft from Alpha Centuri. At the time in that room it seemed incomprehensible to most present how anybody could possibly bask in the glory of the Google infrastructure and then want anything other than that.