Almost all responses state distribution as the main advantage of the web, and I certainly agree. I just wanted to add that what we really need is a form of dis

Almost all responses state distribution as the main advantage of the web, and I certainly agree. I just wanted to add that what we really need is a form of distributed operating system, and the web is the closest implementation of that, albeit a painfully poor one. So, follow up questions might be: how come we have been unable to agree on some shared abstraction of a user and an app at the OS level? And are we now stuck forever in a world where software is grown organically rather than engineered? (as per Dijkstra's famous analogy)