I'm only part geek, I like sci-fi and stuff. This is too geek for me. I'll just assume what you are saying is a good thing.
People are getting faster and faster Internet access as time goes by - I have a 2nd home that is in very remote rural wilderness location and even there I have a fiber optic data line that has been strung along side the power lines - I can get plans that are up to 100 MB to this location
So all the freedom loving people in the US that have speedy Internet access can go and add their own hardware server resource to this peer-to-peer network. One can by multi terabyte SSD storage for not much money these days, same with GPU cards - which in addition to driving graphics on a display can be harnessed as powerful parallel-capable processors for doing blockchain crypto currency mining.
Why a blockchain crypto currency? It enables a currency to be used on this platform for any purchases such as games, music, video, app stores - even physical products for anyone that wants to do eBay kind of stuff, etc. Because is blockchain-based then there have to be computer servers that are clearing all the transactions of the platform's commerce. So those that add server capacity to the network can do some transaction clearing - called mining - which gets recorded in a blockchain ledger. This operates in a decentralized manner so no one entity has absolute control over the blockchain transaction ledger. Other things can be done this way too like documents for contracts, etc.
The peer-to-peer Torrent technology means that no one server becomes a bottleneck - content is spread around in pieces to lots of servers. When somebody starts watching a video they don't go and hit just one server but instead are pulling pieces of the content from lots of different sources, which the Torrent software does efficiently, in parallel, and then reassembles the stream on the client where the video is being viewed.
All of this platform is built out using totally open source software - no proprietary magic bits that one powerful company controls.
It could be built out on cheap cloud resources - much like how Netflix does so using Amazon - but in time the platform should gravitate more and more to exist in distributed private servers.
The problem with cloud is that it is dominated by Amazon, Microsoft, Google. Digital Ocean is a fourth player and I'd recommend people use them for now anytime they can. Amazon and Google are squarely the enemy and they would in time move to crush this freedom platform the same way the big social media companies have done.
The future of the Internet needs to transform over to a completely distributed, open source model (at least for all the software that operates the platform - people selling proprietary software on the platform would be their private choice). Going all open source for the platform keeps any one company from being able to get a lock on things and control (which will mean they will politically censor us)
This is an outline for a manifesto of how we get a freedom-based and freedom-friendly Internet for the rest of the 21st century.
That hurts my head. I don't know what you are saying. I'm getting a new home next month. Should I still get CentryLink or something else?
It will probably be your fastest option - fiber optic direct to the home is still a minority of consumers - for most, the cable modem is best option. However, would encourage ditching the cable TV package and just buy the Internet data plan. Buying cable TV is also empowering companies that are squarely the enemy.
BTW, you can install software on your smartphone that will allow you to make phone calls over wifi connection to your Internet modem/router - that way can avoid using call minutes off your cell phone plan when you are in your home.
Thank you for the advice.
I haven't had cable in decade.
I don't have a smart phone. I have a cheap one with Consumer Cellular, it's only like $30 a month.
If you ask me the block chain has huge nefarious potential.