I want to see distributed processing tackle the mysteries of astronomy by performing analysis on data from space instruments. The entire concept of distributed processing reminds me of society's division of labor and all the advances in civilization that occurred through that principle. It no longer is too futuristic to suggest that we begin to integrate our new Internet to the organizational networks of human production. One cluster of computers could be placed in charge of factories that produce new computers. Another cluster of computers could be put in charge of operating transportation networks.
Many hands make light work.
We still are fascinated by the Internet as a communication network. But communication is one of the most basic human networks. As we learned to talk to one another we started learning how better to work together in production networks. The future of technology should explore the possibilities of the Internet in production networks. The cipher-cracking distributed.net represents only the most crude and experimental Internet production network of the future.