Hypertasking: From Information Web to Computing Utility

John McCarthy proposed the vision of utility computing in 1961. Barbara Liskov proposed a related vision of abstraction-powered internet computer in 2009. This position paper outlines a distributed computing model towards realizing the McCarthy-Liskov vision. This hypertasking model aims at extending the hy-permedia model of the World Wide Web into a model of World Wide Computing Utility, turning an infor-mation web into a computing web. The hypertasking model contains three abstractions, including global re-source space, stored-computer architecture, and monadic hypermedia. A prototype architecture and experi-mental evidence are presented to support this perspective.