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Monday, February 18, 2002
http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0302issue/0302anderson.html Worldwide Computer - An operating system spanning the Internet would bring the power of millions of the world's Internet-connected PCs to everyone's fingertips David P. Anderson and John Kubiatowicz When Mary gets home from work and goes to her PC to check e-mail, the PC isn't just sitting there. It's working for a biotech company, matching gene sequences to a library of protein molecules. Its DSL connection is busy downloading a block of radio telescope data to be analyzed later. Its disk contains, in addition to Mary's own files, encrypted fragments of thousands of other files. Occasionally one of these fragments is read and transmitted; it's part of a movie that someone is watching in Helsinki. Then Mary moves the mouse, and this activity abruptly stops. Now the PC and its network connection are all hers....
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