Thanks Barney these are great responses. The one use I see really is not for creating an actual network but for creating a means by which to share data in a distributed way for largely financial institutions at this point in history at least and it takes adoption.

Financial apps would make more sense as blockchain model is quite secure at least for now! I highly doubt that Facebook and Twitter are running toward a situation where they lose their corporate agendas. I miss the open web. Can we have it back please?

I don't know how long you've been in web development but there once was a 5K contest for HTML which cracks me up now. I also believe that our developer tools have confused a lot of people. We would benefit for free, consistent EDU for content creators who offer webdev courses.

We lost the original working group Charter in 2009. there were issues related to xhtml2 and backward compatibility which of course HTML5 adoption has failed too. But XML lives on. Xforms is a good example. @stevenpemberton has a talk about it on YouTube. I'll get the link.

What's more Steven who is the former chair of the original HTML working group before it lost its Charter is working to bring declarative to current developers and make them aware that this is an option still.