Instead of focusing on high-throughput proprietary protocols and high-efficiency data planes to distribute and deliver the data, we could use battle tested solutions: HTTP and your favorite browser. It just so happens that there are more Javascript processors around the world (every browser can run it) than for any other language out there – a perfect data processing platform.

Google's server farm is rumored to be over six digits (and growing fast), which is an astounding number of machines, but how hard would it be to assemble a million people to contribute a fraction of their compute time? I don't think it's far-fetched at all as long as the barrier to entry is low. Granted, the efficiency of the computation would be much lower, but we would have a much larger potential cluster, and this could enable us to solve a whole class of problems previously unachievable.