> Feel free to call me a digital Luddite Sure. But don't despair, because this future isn't as bleak as you'd assume. With things like Hoodie[0], GunDB[1] and

> Feel free to call me a digital Luddite Sure. But don't despair, because this future isn't as bleak as you'd assume. With things like Hoodie[0], GunDB[1] and other amazing bits of technology, we can keep the benefits of web-tech for application development, but allow the user to own their data still. Offline-first, easy sync when needed. And really, anything more complex than delivering static HTML pages has the downsides you're mentioning, so unless you want to live in 1995 I can't really understand it from a practical perspective ;) [0] http://hood.ie/ http://hood.ie/ [1] http://gun.js.org/ http://gun.js.org/