Beyond Cloud Computing

When my son was on the phone raving about cloud computing on the beta I spoke about at silveos.com which has a beta cloud computing program that you can test for free. I wrote about this in a previous article:

www.silveos.com and cloud computing Betas

So if you want to read that article click the above word button.

Here I wanted to share an idea that my son said, "Was the next step beyond Cloud Computing". Though to some degree servers in Silicon Valley and other places already do this, if you had a giant super fast computer doing this in your area or county or city or country it could greatly speed up access to everything.

This is my idea. If you have a supercomputer with almost unlimited memory that would be in your city or area, then it could access the sites most accessed in your area 24 hours a day and download all the information that is updated to that site every day during the fastest times of access. The computer could be programmed for this. So this way, when most people go online (whatever time that might be which would be different for home or office) all the information could be there for them lightning fast without having to wait for it forever. As new sites were accessed by local computers these sites too could be loaded on that supercomputer with unlimited memory as needed. This speeds up access for everyone in your area. Then cloud computing on top of that would speed it up to lightspeed so everyone in your area would be happier with their computing results. One of the ways to create a computer like this would be to stack 10 or more Pentium chips in a series. The way this was done would have to have specialized programming that would be specifically taylored to your areas needs. However, it would be possible for a programmer to program something like this so that each area could plug in their specific needs into the program. I have seen many programs written in this way. So this program could be specifically designed to carry out all the needs of your area and thereby speed up access considerably.

The main problem with this idea is that if the big companies like Comcast or others got wind of this kind of programming they would want to buy it to keep control of their areas. So the programmers would still make the money but I'm not sure the big companies could see a way to make this profitable for them.

So we are still dealing with the needs of the consumer versus the needs of companies to make a profit. And only where these two needs intersect will anyone be close to happy in this kind of situation. However, this does not stop areas, municipalities or universities to move down this kind of road to help their students and citizens be better served in the long run. When it is done in this way often big internet companies see the usefulness of such programs and then advertise the benefits of what they are doing and then everyone is happy with the lightning fast internet outcome.