[cbozeman]

Dumb terminals everywhere. A huge upgrade of high-speed infrastructure across the US since everyone will need high throughput and low latency. Subscriptions will arise first, as people fucking love predictable monthly revenue - and by people I mean vulture capitalists, and to a lesser degree, risk-averse entrepreneurs (which is almost an oxymoron...), both of whom you can see I hold in low regard. Get ready for a "$39.99 mo. Office Productivity / Streaming / Web browsing" package", a "$59.99 PrO gAmEr package", and God knows what other kinds of disgusting segmentation.

Someone, somewhere, will adopt a Ting-type model where you pay for your compute per cycle, or per trillion cycles or whatever, with a small connection fee per month. It'll be broken down into some kind of easy-to-understand gibberish bullshit for the normies.

In short, it'll create another circle of Hell for everyone - at least initially.

[f1refly]

I really appreciate your pessimistic worldview, keep it up!

[cbozeman]

I basically just base my worldview on the fact that everyone is ultimately self-serving and selfish. Hasn't failed me yet. :)

[colinmhayes]

The great thing about capitalism is that it replaces bad services with good ones. Only exceptions are natural monopolies that the state fails to regulate, which datacenters are not.