I think (hope) that eventually these centralised monoliths will be taken over by distributed versions.
The Internet Of Things IoT will be a precursor to any device being a node in a massive mesh net. That means that I can run my own private, secure personal social node on my cell phone, or even on my toaster.
The front end app will literally just be a front. The backend processing can be done on any number of nano-cloud processing instances run by companies like Amazon or Microsoft.
Storage similarly will be outsourced, but all data will be protected at rest using strong encryption.
The Internet Of Things IoT will be a precursor to any device being a node in a massive mesh net. That means that I can run my own private, secure personal social node on my cell phone, or even on my toaster.
The front end app will literally just be a front. The backend processing can be done on any number of nano-cloud processing instances run by companies like Amazon or Microsoft.
Storage similarly will be outsourced, but all data will be protected at rest using strong encryption.