Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Google Fellow Amin Vahdat, who is the VP & GM for ML, Systems, and Cloud AI at Google. Amin originally delivered this as a keynote in 2023 at the University of Washington for The Allen School's Distinguished Lecture Series. This post captures Amin’s reflections on the history of distributed computing, where we are today, and what we can expect for the next-generation of computing services. Over the past fifty years, computing and communication have transformed ...