alt Hacker News> This was not the "free and global market" I thought we were supposed to have at this point.
Perhaps you haven't noticed but the pendulum has been swinging the other way for a while already and has a lot of momentum behind it. It's mentioned off-hand because the ongoing return to a multi-polar global order is covered elsewhere already, across dozens of articles every day.
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draw_down • today at 2:23 AM
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marcosdumay • today at 2:59 AM
> has a lot of momentum behind it
Does it? It's mostly the US pushing against globalism right now. Trump managed to unite almost the entire world.
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Although it is unknown what will happen with current generation of AI system, data is power.
We have been slowly moving towards centralized computing again since 2010s
With governments backing this trend of AI with military funds it is only natural for the others to follow and making computing even more centralized.
By 2020s, Nvidia announce the plan to become more b2b only and then at some point a cloud only company, not even selling the assets.
I don't mean you won't have your smartphone, but it is a dumb terminal compared to the capacities you'll have and maybe need daily.