Right, in the sense of "the network is the computer". Tangent: one of the most talented engineers I ever met gave an amazing (tho sadly company-private, unreco

Right, in the sense of "the network is the computer". Tangent: one of the most talented engineers I ever met gave an amazing (tho sadly company-private, unrecorded) talk about how the OS was his IDE. Kind of analogous... anyway, I like this type of re-framing or meta-level-shifting.