Among the computers populating this network, most processing cycles are going to waste. Most processors, most of the time, are waiting for instructions. Even within an active processor, as Bigelow explained, most computational elements are waiting around for something to do next. The global computer, for all its powers, is perhaps the least efficient machine that humans have ever built. There is a thin veneer of instructions, and then there is a dark, empty 99.9 percent.
