… the basic assumption that a person must serve as the universal endpoint is not only outdated…

… the basic assumption that a person must serve as the universal endpoint is not only outdated; it’s unsustainable. And yet the client-server model remains by far the most predominant. We continue to think and operate under the assumption that a human being must in some way process every computer output. In many cases this is inefficient and actually limits the capabilities of the devices and the network that they run on.

Building for the Internet of things (and the demise of the client-server model)