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I have talked about this concept since the 90s. The network is the meeting place, not corporate servers.
The "pod" gets built into a users gateway/router as a small, secure web server. Young people use phones theses days (so I'm led to believe).
Everyone with internet or a phone gets a personal domain name. Now everyone can be contacted by their name/address.
No more anonymity, get over it, just behave yourselves, be real !
Instead of a user filling in forms on each and every service/company they interact with,
they fill in their data in their own "pod" then allow access to each service/company.
Now the user only has to update their personal data once and all services/companies get access to current data.
The publication of this data gives the owner legal rights and ability to restrict access.
I can do this today by forwarding my router internal ports 80 and 443 to my pc and setting up a fairly simple web server.
But security wise it would be more sensible to have the router or a small, secure IoT server on the local network doing the work.
I have a Rock64 setup at present doing just that.
The main resistance will be companies "ownership" of peoples personal data, which they make a lot of money from.
This will eventually kill Facebook, Google, Amazon, Oracle, clouds, ISPs, and will empower individuals.
A level playing field. A cloud is just a mass of equal water particles in the air, so I guess it will become a real cloud.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
