I'm writing this comment in advance of reading the article, but I've been thinking about this circumstance and the thoughts are finally gelling to a few concise

I'm writing this comment in advance of reading the article, but I've been thinking about this circumstance and the thoughts are finally gelling to a few concise, if not fully encompassing, words. For many particularly in the developed world, globalization and its pressures, particularly economic, have made it clear to individuals that -- perhaps ironically -- it is every person, every community for oneself. Those individuals and communities are beginning to respond. If this trend leads to an increasing push not just for individual but also communal self-reliance, I don't see that as a bad thing, at this point. It can cap or limit some of the current exploitation. And re-introduce some redundancy into what have apparently become very fragile and risky systems and dependencies. A primary push should be for energy independence. Once you have that, it's much more difficult for external interests to jerk you around. And hopefully the initiative can grow and maintain a significant domestic technical sector. There are also perils, and I'm no political nor sociological expert. But as with municipal broadband in the U.S., pushback against intellectual property excesses in many places, and a thousand other things, more in the general public are finding that, for them, "bigger" is NOT "better". Not currently. Not, increasingly, for a while, now. Independence is one means of drawing boundaries to that "bigger" that seems to just keep squeezing them. P.S. I'll add that I've read the OP article, now. Having done so, my comment stands unchanged.