In the era where personal devices and applications are pervasive, individuals are continuously generating and interacting with a vast amount of data. Despite this, access to and control over such data remains challenging due to its scattering across various app providers and formats. This paper presents Human-Scale Computing, a vision and an approach where every individual has straightforward, unified access to their data across all devices, apps, and services. Key to this solution is the Human Scale Portal, a progressively designed intermediary that integrates different applications and service providers. This design adopts a transitional development and deployment strategy, involving an initial bootstrapping phase to engage application providers, an acceleration phase to enhance the convenience of access, and an eventual solution. We believe that this progressive "narrow waist" design can bridge the gap between the current state of data access and our envisioned future of human-scale access.

翻译：在个人设备与应用无处不在的时代，个体持续生成并交互海量数据。然而，由于数据分散于各类应用提供商和格式中，用户对数据的访问与控制仍面临挑战。本文提出"人类规模计算"这一愿景与方案，使每个个体能够跨设备、跨应用、跨服务实现对个人数据的统一、便捷访问。该方案的核心是"人类规模门户"——一种渐进式设计的中间层，用于整合不同的应用和服务提供商。此设计采用过渡性开发与部署策略，包含三个阶段：初始启动阶段以吸引应用提供商参与，加速阶段以提升访问便利性，最终阶段形成完整解决方案。我们相信，这种渐进式"窄腰"设计能够弥合当前数据访问状态与理想中人类规模访问之间的鸿沟。