Hesays that it is evenpossiblefora virtualcomputer in the cloud to become infected byan ordinarybotnet, because cloud usersdon'tnormallyrunanti-virussoftware.
The resources of those individual machines will then be pooled to create a massive computing "grid, " avirtualcomputer that is more powerful than the fastest supercomputers.
Adrenalyn lets today's kids do something like that online, where a player losing acomputer competition sees his virtual card swallowed up and uploaded to the winner's account.
"For anyone who witnessed the onset of computers and the dawn of video games, 'Tron' spoke to a lot of us with concepts about what it was like to be inside acomputer or avirtual world, " he said.