# Society must take compute back

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-03-02
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show)
- **Watch at:** 00:28:01 — https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-03-02-society-must-take-compute-back-nnfq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Society must take compute back," Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show), 2 Mar 2018, 00:28:01. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast

## Quote — verbatim

> There's that innovation being stifled here. And it's so many things that are wrong with centralization of the cloud. And considering compute is a very, very important, you know, foundational element of our society, we should, as people, have responsibility to take it back.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing his argument about the "Amazon problem" — clouds white-labeling open-source projects (Google Dataproc vs. Databricks Spark) and out-competing their creators.