{"id":14,"date":"2010-01-24T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:15:00","slug":"the-internet-as-an-operating-system-good-idea-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/the-internet-as-an-operating-system-good-idea-but\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet as an Operating System. Good idea, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the OS run on? Typically IE or Firefox running on Windows. In this way, the Internet is the Information Highway for the privileged  20% of the world population with more than a billion computers in the global network. But wait a minute, did I say global network? What would happen if I cut off one node? In a true network, everything would continue to work unaffected. However, on the Information Highway, if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/jan\/24\/google-china-internet-freedom-control\">the Chinese government banned Google<\/a>, Chinese people would be using Bing. The network would continue to work unaffected. It&#8217;s still not a true network. What would happen if Bing is banned? Ok, a couple of nodes are lost, and China is in the dark ages. (We are in the Information Age now.) The point is illustrative enough. A true network functions with half its nodes lost.<br \/>\nWhat does the OS run on? Again, that&#8217;s the question. Coming up with the question is the hard part. The answer is easy: it runs on the network. What network? In terms of hardware, it&#8217;s the all the desktops, servers, microwave ovens, thermostats connected together, necessarily with ip addresses. In terms of software, it&#8217;s a neural network with arms and legs. Now, I&#8217;ve heard a secret. (Not you!)<br \/>\nMicrosoft is working on this secret project, and the .Net Framework was designed to have the run time environment to support it. Bing Singularity to learn about what&#8217;s already been done.<\/p>\n<p>PS: It sounds like I&#8217;ve just written a commercial for Microsoft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the OS run on? Typically IE or Firefox running on Windows. In this way, the Internet is the Information Highway for the privileged 20% of the world population with more than a billion computers in the global network. But wait a minute, did I say global network? What would happen if I cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[88,86,87,85],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singularitarian","tag-net","tag-internet","tag-midori","tag-operating-system"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}