Surely Google should just follow the money?

... the future of gaming. We will look back at these stories and realise this was where it all started...

I'm already utilising my MacBook's multi-cores... by bouncing stuff in Logic at the same time as streaming BBC radio and doing LAMP dev. I don't necessarily want FF or whatever chewing up all available resource on all processors. My point is that outside of academia where the whole of a machine is dedicated to a single cause there is little need to introduce this complexity at a sub-application level.

I was similarly bamboozled. The biggest problem in the automotive future is how to distribute electricity to electric cars in a fair and convenient way. The article hints at this but never explicitely addresses it. Why? I also agree with the above - that basing your network infrastructure on Vehicles is daft. But getting cars to participate does make sense from a crash prevention perspective. This paves the way for massively scaling up vehicle density with self-navigating travel at some utopian juncture.

It's rich for an intelligent man to say the stupid should suffer for being stupid. The (slightly) more intelligent man says - let's help the stupid not be abused.

Does anyone else agree with me that the future is unlikely to be entirely offloaded, but a hybrid situation? Even the cheapest of phone chipsets will shortly have fairly decent rendering by today's standards. It's not hard to envisage something where a great deal of the processing can be handled by the server, whereas each device does a certain amount of rendering / coping with the immediate 1/10th sec to remove the lag. Somewhere between AMD's ideological future and current MMOs