He's talking about a specific cycle in computing where it has moved from centralized processing to decentralized multiple times in the past. For example -firs

He's talking about a specific cycle in computing where it has moved from centralized processing to decentralized multiple times in the past. For example -first there were mainframes with glorified type-writes as terminals -then we had personal computers -then we had thin clients -then we had thick clients -etc Basically this has happened before, will likely happen again, yet people (or maybe just tech reporters) always seem so surprised when the pendulum swings back the other way