The real promise of the semiconductor revolution which made it simple for almost every human being to literally own computing machines which are more powerful t

The real promise of the semiconductor revolution which made it simple for almost every human being to literally own computing machines which are more powerful than supercomputers of a few decades back is the promise of entirely owning ALL your data and performing your own computations locally and merely communicating with other peers by means of dumb pipes. Just changing from Google to N does nothing towards this goal, and we're now even further away from the promise of a decentralised Internet than ever before I believe. Wake me up when a non-tech user can spin up an email server the same way they can open a browser and and send emails to any other person on the net. And with phones being powered on 24x365, one would think the dream of being a home server would be easier than ever... But of course this way promises no money/profit for businesses in general. Or at least less so, since vendor-lock in and data monetisation would be much more difficult if not impossible.