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"I predict that within one-hundred years computers will be twice as powerful, ten-thousand times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."



I assume 3 of the kings are Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS) and Google (GCP)


The other two being the USG and China.


And they will be called mainframes (again).

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...


Comment can be improved by adding source.


The source seems to be the fictional professor from the Simpsons (John Frink):

http://wiki.c2.com/?FrinkLanguage




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