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It's quite interesting to see the reactions. I'm happy to call it "inefficient" instead? I'm not a native English speaker so maybe the choice of word indicated to some that I wanted to blame people, that was not my intention.
Maybe it's the fact that many users here are very tech savvy and would never want to give away sovereignty of their devices, which I can fully relate to. But I believe this perspective totally skews what an average user needs in computational power for everyday tasks.
This "communal computing" solution is just an idea. Maybe it's stupid and has many downsides I haven't considered, but I think it's quite apparent, that we'll not be able to continue this way forever, especially if more and more people on this planet rightfully want access to all these amenities.
We feel very entitled to our technology, and I fully think it plays an important part in open society, having access to information etc.
But it's simple ridiculous to believe that it's some kind of basic human right for everyone to own one or many high end devices for stuff that could easily be done with a 5-10 year old device.