We can use Machine Learning to diagnose diseases and we don't need to use machine learning to target advertisements to people. We can use it to cure … - Joe Armstrong

Let's unbreak the web. The web is broken. Let's go out and un-break it and let's bring computation back to these supercomputers that we've got in our pockets [...] Let's ensure that our personal data is owned by us and not by large corporations [...] Let's make computing easy again like it was in the past. Let's build apps that could communicate with each other.

Why are people just moving the data and not the programs. We could move both of them to some intermediate point in the middle to perform the computation there.

Let me just say something about pipes. The great UNIX philosophy was: the output of my program should be the input to your program, to compile things together.