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Can the millions of phones be used to coordinate and build any sort of 'Cloud servers'? When SETI@Home used our desktops' idle screen saver time for its calculations, can these multi-core pocket computers be used for something?
On a similar but orthogonal angle... Can the millions of phones be used to coordinate and build any sort of 'Cloud servers'? When SETI@Home used our desktops' idle screen saver time for its calculations, can these multi-core pocket computers be used for something?
To encourage people to contribute processing power / storage, these projects need to incentivise them which is where bitcoin comes in.
There is a startup called 21.co which is creating an embeddable bitcoin mining chip, which can be "embedded into an internet-connected device as a standalone chip or integrated into an existing chipset as a block of IP to generate a continuous stream of digital currency for use in a wide variety of applications." [1]
As mobile devices start having these embeddable mining chips, people would be able to "mine" coins like FoldingCoin and CureCoin on their devices, which then becomes like a network of coordinated "cloud servers" which are incentivised by these coins
Also, there are decentralised cloud storage projects like Storj.io (similar to Dropbox).
[1] https://medium.com/@21dotco/a-bitcoin-miner-in-every-device-...
Sorry, I don't get it. Why use mobile phones when you can just use servers that don't have redundant features such as screens, cameras and sensors? Are you suggesting that the economy of scale has reached a point where the smartphone would be more cost-effective even with those features?
I was thinking of how the Intel cpu brought the computer into the normal household. What could bring Amazon into the household of a normal person today? What if someone decided to create a server mobile unit - no screen, no cameras, no sensors. Just a unit that can be plugged into a specially designed rack in your house/apartment. This is a futuristic idea - think of the 80s and the 8086 has just come out, but one da…
Put a sysadmin in every household. Personal servers have been a thing in geek houses for decades.
We're starting to get more domestic computer appliances: PVRs, consoles, home NAS gizmos, increasingly smart routers. Nest. Smart lightbulbs. However, because very few people have the skill, time, and inclination to manage these things, they're subject to the management of their OEM. Who will do the profit-maximising thing.
On a similar but orthogonal angle... Can the millions of phones be used to coordinate and build any sort of 'Cloud servers'? When SETI@Home used our desktops' idle screen saver time for its calculations, can these multi-core pocket computers be used for something?
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I was thinking of how the Intel cpu brought the computer into the normal household. What could bring Amazon into the household of a normal person today? What if someone decided to create a server mobile unit - no screen, no cameras, no sensors. Just a unit that can be plugged into a specially designed rack in your house/apartment. This is a futuristic idea - think of the 80s and the 8086 has just come out, but one da…
How do we make a household capable of being an Amazon Put a sysadmin in every household. Personal servers have been a thing in geek houses for decades. We're starting to get more domestic computer appliances: PVRs, consoles, home NAS gizmos, increasingly smart routers. Nest. Smart lightbulbs. However, because very few people have the skill, time, and inclination to manage these things, they're subject to the manageme…
"Services" are wrappers around "solutions" which are wrappers around a collection of products. People generally don't want to learn to install 10 different products, or even 3 different solutions. They want one service provider, and they're happy to pay a premium for that.