Well, just imaging a different society: you have broadband at home and that means you have a small homeserver at home, an IPv6 global for it, a domain name for

Well, just imaging a different society: you have broadband at home and that means you have a small homeserver at home, an IPv6 global for it, a domain name for you/you family/business with eventual subdomains. You took photos with connected device like you do today, but instead of sync them against your Google Drive/iCloud your phone sync them to your homeserver both via internet when you are on the go or at home in your LAN. Your friend have a phonebook like all modern smartphones have today but that's phonebook is a little bit more featuresful, from it looking for a contact you can initiate a voice{,+video} call IP2IP, you can write a mail but also see a classic blog page of the contact if he/she/it have one, this is just a local app that offer you correspondents "public namespaces" (Plan 9 style) mounted locally as you wish and cached locally as you wish. That's means that you photo gallery offer access to your contacts public photos and videos, just looking for them. You browser, a real browser, not a modern WebVM offer your contacts sites, cached as you wish in similar ways etc. That's means: more functionalities, no feature erased by some corporate decision, only the community decide, you contents on your iron, contents you like on your iron, so far faster usage, far better integration, far less reliance on any specific third party services. Not a single functionality less. It's not a dream, technically is perfectly doable, those systems actually are already designed decades ago, with the first P2P video-conference with screen sharing in 1968 (NLS mother of all the demos), with late '70s Xerox Star Office system etc it's not there just because few big & powerful have other plans for their own interests and most others do not know nor care.