# Devices will outnumber humans; the future needs edge capacity served by people, not hyperscalers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-11-10
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** CEO of Overclock Labs On the World of Blockchain & Upcoming Technology In Development (CoinBundle)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Don1slbJlMQ&t=1536s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2018-11-10-devices-will-outnumber-humans-the-future-needs-edg-plcz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Devices will outnumber humans; the future needs edge capacity served by people, not hyperscalers," CEO of Overclock Labs On the World of Blockchain & Upcoming Technology In Development (CoinBundle), 10 Nov 2018, 00:25:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Don1slbJlMQ&t=1536s

## Quote — verbatim

> We're moving to a more decentralized infrastructure where you have devices more than humans accessing the cloud, and a lot of these devices need edge capacity. Cloud is not gonna provide that because the economics doesn't really work — they're focusing on building hyperscale data centers, whereas the world and innovation is moving towards more distributed and decentralized computing. Who's gonna serve this future? It can't be the cloud — it has to be people. It's very important to take back control of a foundational element of society back from the oligarchs, and that's the mission for Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His closing argument on why decentralization matters long-term: IoT/edge growth makes hyperscaler economics unworkable, so compute supply must come from people. Early statement of the compute-goes-local thesis. (Captions render "edge" as "age.")