This is Nick Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse as I predicted years ago. It used to be the case that centralized distribution was cheaper, than, as described i

This is Nick Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse as I predicted years ago. It used to be the case that centralized distribution was cheaper, than, as described in the book, every factory having its own water wheel power plant. The technology is getting good enough now though that each endpoint can be self-sustaining, and even provide services - just as the internet should be - every endpoint providing and consuming. This trend will be massively disruptive, and expect centralized services to do just about anything they have to, to protect their dinosaur business model.