We are going to get a distributed something.  He mentions a lot of the existing efforts.<p>I think these are tough problems but actually mostly solved in different projects that are out there.  The hardest part is making the ideas work together and agreeing on protocols.<p>The solutions that become popular could really help quite a few people.  I see it as possibly being the key to society&#x27;s overall struggle for effective organization.<p>Right now I believe we need a small number of very flexible distributed protocols to be used as widely as possible, and have most if not all other systems built on top of them.  That will mean a high degree of automation in systems integration while supporting diversity and freedom for systems to evolve.  If we can do that and solve problems like privacy, synchronization, and latency issues at the same time, we could leverage that type of system for addressing things like inequality and efficient use of resources.