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http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html There are other examples of this than the one cited. There's a wheel of reincarnation in computing between the mainframe/thin-client model and the PC/P2P-network model. Right now we've come from an era of PC dominance back to an era of mainframe models around the "cloud." (The new term for mainframe computing.) IPv6 and ubiquitous wireless broadband would be among those things that would turn the wheel back around to the PC/distributed side. The big barrier is the carriers and their squatting over the wireless spectrum and insistence upon control over the device. Once the carriers are opened up and commoditized, or once meshnets or other innovations make them less relevant, we'll have this. Open the spectrum and kill NAT (with IPv6), and you kill the cloud.