You're very welcome. The Ink and Switch folks have more interesting posts (and a few released prototypes) that advance the conversation, which are dense and tho

You're very welcome. The Ink and Switch folks have more interesting posts (and a few released prototypes) that advance the conversation, which are dense and thoughtful: https://www.inkandswitch.com/ https://www.inkandswitch.com/ You're right that the economic incentives aren't such as to produce highly polished frameworks, libraries, and apps yet, and the public discourse is fairly diffuse. An entrant that just popped onto my radar is Aphrodite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446780 Another org that may turn out to be a player is the Bluesky team that was spun out of Twitter: https://blueskyweb.org/blog https://blueskyweb.org/blog Adhoc mesh networking is something that has been potentially available forever, but existing business models of network operators (who subsidize and resell — and therefore shape — hardware) are hostile to it. R&D-wise it is sidestepping mobile communication devices per-se and finding applications in niches like autonomous drone swarm coordination, which is obviously restricted to mostly military applications. In the absence of direct support for similar capabilities on smartphones (or the ability to add such support through Software Defined Radio networking) we see apps like Briar filling the need with occasionally-connected approaches: https://briarproject.org/ https://briarproject.org/ Besides the various terms mentioned previously, you might also find the phrase "offline-first" of interest.