# The pendulum swings back: from mainframes to PCs to cloud to decentralization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-03-16
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjvs6IsrU&t=842s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-03-16-the-pendulum-swings-back-from-mainframes-to-pcs-to-cjlr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The pendulum swings back: from mainframes to PCs to cloud to decentralization," The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer), 16 Mar 2018, 00:14:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjvs6IsrU&t=842s

## Quote — verbatim

> In the 60s the model was centralized — the mainframe had all the power... in the 80s we saw the rise of PCs, which... distributed power... then we saw the rise of the public cloud with the evolution of mobile phones — the mobile phone was a very thin access layer to the centralized thing called a cloud. And now you're seeing a model going back to the decentralized model with projects like ours... Filecoin, it's storage... we took an approach of addressing the entire generic workload model.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing historical argument that compute centralization is cyclical and 2018-era decentralized infrastructure projects are the next swing.