[sbazerque]

The Internet became mainstream because folks could use modems and phone landlines (circuit switching technology, that the new TCP/IP end-to-end packet switching stack would eventually replace) to get online.

The path for mass adoption of the new, p2p and interoperable technologies is the same: make them work on web browsers (using the browser as a full peer, not a client). It is the ubiquitous VM: JavaScript, WASM, IndexedDB, WebRTC+WebSockets, all the pieces are there.

The building blocks for a representation / data model are all in the air as well: CRDTs, Merkle-ized structures, content-based addressing, etc.

I'm a believer.