Peter Levine gave a seminal presentation titled “The End of Cloud Computing'' in December of 2016. He foretold the rise of “edge computing” as IoT devices and machine learning applications would start to produce more data and require more compute power. A brilliant piece of insight from his presentation was the recognition that the decentralization of computing is a recurring theme as computers become more powerful. We have been here before with both personal computers and mobile computing.

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