Human-Scale Computing: A Case for Progressive Narrow Waist for Internet Applications

In the era where personal devices and applications are pervasive, individuals are continuously generating and interacting with a vast amount of data. Despite this, access to and control over such data remains challenging due to its scattering across various app providers and formats. This paper pres...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Fu, Silvery, Das, Pratyush, Ratnasamy, Sylvia
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 28.08.2023
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Access control
Computation
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Summary:In the era where personal devices and applications are pervasive, individuals are continuously generating and interacting with a vast amount of data. Despite this, access to and control over such data remains challenging due to its scattering across various app providers and formats. This paper presents Human-Scale Computing, a vision and an approach where every individual has straightforward, unified access to their data across all devices, apps, and services. Key to this solution is the Human Scale Portal, a progressively designed intermediary that integrates different applications and service providers. This design adopts a transitional development and deployment strategy, involving an initial bootstrapping phase to engage application providers, an acceleration phase to enhance the convenience of access, and an eventual solution. We believe that this progressive "narrow waist" design can bridge the gap between the current state of data access and our envisioned future of human-scale access.
ISSN:2331-8422