Sure, if you are willing to do all of the computation on the client, and only use the server as a place to store an encrypted bag of bits. If you have a suffic

Sure, if you are willing to do all of the computation on the client, and only use the server as a place to store an encrypted bag of bits. If you have a sufficiently fast network connection (or enough local disk cache and the ability to predict what you will need before you drop off your high speed network access), that can work. But there will be a lot of things that you may have gotten accustomed to if you operate in such a paradigm.