This seemingly destructive segmentation of the Internet is precisely what will lead to its successor: a collection of &quot;overlay networks&quot; built on top of the existing IP stack. We&#x27;re already seeing it in many ways, with Tor and VPNs as two commonly used examples. But overlay networks are not just advantageous for packet transport. They can represent any decentralized network. BitCoin is an overlay network, in that it&#x27;s literally a payment network, is a payment network, built on top of existing IP infrastructure.<p>We are going to see more and more of these &quot;overlays&quot; as the Internet &quot;re-decentralizes&quot;. Sure, what we know as &quot;the Internet&quot; is becoming increasingly centralized, and people are right to be concerned. But there is nothing to fear, so long as we can build more abstractions on top of the Internet as we know it. Let Amazon, Google, and the big &quot;clouds&quot; centralize as much of the Internet as they want. They are only digging their own grave, because the next revolution, the &quot;Internet 2.0&quot; will be as decentralized as its predecessor. Only instead of being built on the &quot;dumb pipes&quot; of copper and fiber, it will be built on the &quot;dumb pipes&quot; of the existing, increasingly centralized, Internet.<p>The more the Internet infrastructure consolidates itself, the more it provides an opportunity to re-decentralize on top of it.