It’s the end of the web as we know it
Aren't these doomsday-posts getting boring?<p>Here's my take:<p>Stop worrying. According to internet physics facebook will gradually diffuse into distributed services.<p>The first mass migration away from the silos is likely going to happen as early as within this decade. As soon as some kid in his basement creates a set of viable protocol specs (read: not diaspora) and as soon as a few relentless hackers smell blood in the water.<p>Once initiated no Zuckerberg or Schmidt has the resources to argue with the second law of thermodynamics. The social graph is destined to gravitate outwards until it's more or less evenly distributed over our always-on devices. Supported by a network of interchangeable service-providers for caching, storage and, of course, "apps".<p>There you have it. But don't let that stop you from writing the next series of sky-is-falling posts. They're part of the process.