Historically there was a pendulum swinging back and forth between #client and #server in the distribution of computing power, with the era of #UNIX workstations maybe the peak of desktop computing. With the "cloudification" of commercial desktop OS's and more so with the emergence of #mobile, the shift to servers was intense. Now the immense "AI" datacenters investments by #bigtech are ushering what seems a terminally hypercentralized model. Not clear what dynamic might provide counterforce.

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