Thinking of a matrix of CPU cycles *points up at sky, notibly towards some mysterious orbiting satellite that no-one admits too*
The world is shrouded by those orbiting rust buckets, but they have the potential to cycle data continuously from transponder to transponder across a global sized network.
The original problem with computation was the need for SPACE, and temperature control. A bunch of satellites in space means you can plug in a new transponder module, take up as much space as you want an interact at any uplink location.
There is also the possibility that housing such a networked system up in the sky, could mean the possibility of quantum telemetry, of using accelerated signals to project future information in a parallel processed mass collective.
I still wonder if corncircles are a by-product (And possible pointer) of a sentient life force free-floating arount our satellite networks, thats only got that way as it manage to quantum jump it's way back the first satellites being launched.