Unlocking the smartphone will be a singular event in computing history.
Running a personal website is a metaphor for actually using the device fully and with agency.
It cannot not happen. The drivers are the ever increasing commoditisation of quality hardware, the slow but steady maturity of open source software and the fact that it takes machination at planetary scale to prevent it from happening (ie keeping these ever more powerful devices locked for scrolling down social).
Ofcourse the timing and manner the revolution will happen is unpredictable.
I was thinking of slightly wider adoption, but the proof-of-principle is indeed already here.
Demonstrating that this freedom offers radical new opportunities (the infamous killer apps) is not yet done though.
We need to think outside the confines that locked down devices have forced us to think. Swarms of mobiles acting as both clients and servers are a new unexplored territory.
Running a personal website is a metaphor for actually using the device fully and with agency.
It cannot not happen. The drivers are the ever increasing commoditisation of quality hardware, the slow but steady maturity of open source software and the fact that it takes machination at planetary scale to prevent it from happening (ie keeping these ever more powerful devices locked for scrolling down social).
Ofcourse the timing and manner the revolution will happen is unpredictable.