I'm not so sure they are the way forward. They're clearly the way forward if you dislike being "locked-in". But is being locked-in always a bad thing? Nope.
We could easily have a distributed web search engine to replace google. It could run on everyones machine, and it'd be awesome. But what would be the advantage?
Also before twitter/facebook, we had email - a distributed social network. How is the "new" distributed social network going to be better than email?
We could easily have a distributed web search engine to replace google. It could run on everyones machine, and it'd be awesome. But what would be the advantage?
Also before twitter/facebook, we had email - a distributed social network. How is the "new" distributed social network going to be better than email?