After I published AI is the New Netflix, Surj Patel, a former colleague, intellectual sparring partner, and long-time reader, asked a sharp question. Given my argument that AI will drive the next wave of upstream traffic, are we headed toward more of a superscaled peer-to-peer model, away from the hub-and-spoke, client-server architecture that underlies the web? And what technologies or business models does that require? AI, as we have come to know it, will seep into everything the way cloud and mobile did. It has to, because we are incapable of processing the machine-scale information, data, and processes of the post-digital world at a human scale. The client-server model was built for human-scale consumption. A person makes a request. A server answers. The session ends. That worked for so long. But now it doesn’t. Everything is always on, and needs to be in touch with other devices, software, storage and servers all the time. Whether it is security updates in our home routers, or…
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