One of the terms thrown around a lot these days in computing circles is “edge computing”. You experience edge computing every time you talk into your SmartPhone and Google converts what you’ve just said into text.<\/p>\n
In that case, the audio of your voice streams to a Google server, where an extremely powerful computer uses complex algorithms to convert that audio into meaningful written sentences. The interesting part of this is that the level of processing done on that server is far greater than anything your phone could do on its own.<\/p>\n
Essentially, the computer in your phone is acting as a gateway to a vastly more powerful computing network. Because your phone is on the “edge” of that powerful network, in short bursts you can get access to far more computational power than would be possible using just that little box in your pocket.<\/p>\n
As edge computing advances in the next few years, the experience of reality itself will be fundamentally altered for many millions of people. More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the terms thrown around a lot these days in computing circles is “edge computing”. You experience edge computing every time you talk into your SmartPhone and Google converts what you’ve just said into text. In that case, the audio of your voice streams to a Google server, where an extremely powerful computer uses … Continue reading “The Edge, part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19717,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716\/revisions\/19717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}