# If we don't decentralize, we die as a society

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:38 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=518s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-03-19-if-we-don-t-decentralize-we-die-as-a-society-cdn5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "If we don't decentralize, we die as a society," Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network), 19 Mar 2024, 00:08:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=518s

## Quote — verbatim

> We are in a very crazy political and social-economical environment. If we don't decentralize, we will die as a society, and feudalism over freedom is going to prevail — and that's the reality we are faced with right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After arguing cloud innovation has stalled (the promised edge computing and 10ms latency never arrived because hyperscale was more profitable) and censorship is "getting out of control."