Network infrastructure is also a powerful driver of centralisation. I'd much rather host content from my home (and, living in a very sunny Australian city, pow

Network infrastructure is also a powerful driver of centralisation. I'd much rather host content from my home (and, living in a very sunny Australian city, power that with PV and battery storage at a low amortised cost) - but I can't, because the network to support that isn't there. I get about 7Mb/s down and and 1Mb/s up - my link is highly asymmetric. When I finally get off ADSL and on to the new National Broadband Network, that'll still be asymmetric. I can see why networks are built that way, given the current centralisation of infrastructure, but the build also reinforces centralisation. Think back to 20 years ago when most business network connections, even for small business, were symmetric. Hosting stuff on-site (email servers, web servers, ...) was far more common.