ipfs is fantastic, but it is half the solution. We also need a distributed p2p application framework, with which nodes can securely communicate and allow buildi

ipfs is fantastic, but it is half the solution. We also need a distributed p2p application framework, with which nodes can securely communicate and allow building distributed apps, like search. We can think differently with ipfs. Traditional web allows everyone to publish content somewhere, hoping that search engines will index it. With ipfs, the same file (with the same content) is only indexed/stored once and then you reference the hash to get to the content. This fact changes the problem of search. Take all the world's movies. With ipfs + p2p network, you only need one back end in the form of a distributed search index, which can index all the movies in the world. Same with the world's music. You only need one back end which can index all the music. The index can be as simple as {"movie title": [sha256]}, where the array contains the hashes of different 'encodings' of the same content (eg. 'dvd rip', 'blue ray' or 'mp3'). Content can be indexed by all kinds of properties of course and it can grow organically over time to include more and more details. With ipfs plus the p2p network we'll build 'apps', not 'pages'. People can have a list of 'apps' running on their machines - which are node instances in various distributed applications, sharing the same p2p network and using ipfs as storage. Apps can have 'backend' and 'front end' parts - the back end is the part which participates in the p2p network, while the 'front end' provides a human interface to the back end, were users can search/browse/view the content. Apps are distributed as git repositories stored in ipfs, while the 'core' running on the user's machine compiles the sources (inside a build vm) and loads the resulting binaries into containers running in virtual machines. This would make it easy for devs to write and publish new distributed apps, making the network totally decentralised and virtually unstoppable. Ps. If you feel that this insanity could work, then I'd love to discuss it in more depth - delegate78@gmx.com