I think we are approaching another tipping point towards decentralization. As more and more people become aware of the privacy and other abuses from Google and

I think we are approaching another tipping point towards decentralization. As more and more people become aware of the privacy and other abuses from Google and Facebook there will be a growing migration towards anyone who offers alternatives and more choices. I remember the great excitement of those early days when the internet first started to become a mass public phenonema. It was going to change everything, become the great leveler. Those huge entrenched monopolistic corporations would have trouble competing against small quick startups. And for a while that happened, entire industries were changed by tiny startups in garages, like Google. But as it became bigger Google changed for the worse. I think this is going to be a continuing cycle. But one great thing is that we will be creating new tools such as blockchain and will have a clearer roadmap of what to do when somebody amasses so much centralized power that they start to limit our choices, to enrich themselves. Another thing, today people are walking around with enough combined computing power in the phones in their pocket to dwarf the resources of even Google, Facebook, and even the CIA and NSA and I know we have enough hackers that would consider it a challenge and even fun to organize all that power to counteract any serious abuses. For instance many phones these days have at least 8 processors around 4GHZ and it now is possible to add a 1 Terabyte SD Card. That is more than enough to use it as a DNS Server. Soon we will be seeing more and more peer to peer mesh networks, decreasing the need to use an ISP. I think more and more local Co-ops will be formed with people networking together their computer resources. And these Co-ops could network together themselves. For example they could form an online buyers club with all purchases going through a specific IP Address and no transaction being able to be traced to individuals. And a small percentage of the purchase price can be earmarked to pay people running the DNS or other services or pay them for any useful specialized software they have developed for these uses.