For two decades the story of computing was centralisation — bigger data centres, bigger clouds, bigger pools of compute behind a single API. The pendulum is now swinging back. Edge computing pushes work out to small, geographically distributed nodes that sit a few milliseconds from the user.
The implications are quietly profound. Latency disappears. Resilience improves. Privacy becomes architecturally easier. The web itself begins to feel less like a remote service and more like a local one — even though the infrastructure underneath has only grown more sophisticated.