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> and pursue fundamentally new ways of computing.

Do you have any examples or ideas regarding that new way of computing? I'm not even sure I understand that phrase.

Maybe you meant new way of interacting?

And why do you mention both backend technologies, phone apps and web itself? Those are entirely different things that may rely or interact with each other, but they are not the same.

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not so much interacting, as harnessing computing resources. plan9, though not terribly popular in the mainstream sense, introduced very simple and effective methods of distributed computing. the engineers broke away from the TCP model and developed their own transport protocol for super-fast data transfer. i personally want to see more of this.

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