In 1961, he was perhaps the first to suggest publicly the idea of utility computing, in a speech given to celebrate MIT's centennial: that computer time-sharing technology might result in a future in which computing power and even specific applications could be sold through the utility business model (like water or electricity).
Prvi je 1961. predložio (u govoru danom prilikom MIT-ovog stogodišnjeg slavlja) da bi računalna time-sharing tehnologija moga voditi ka budućnosti u kojom bi se računalna moć pa čak i specifične aplikacije mogle prodavati kroz poslovni model sličan onome za vodu ili struju.