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# Introduction


## Welcome to Our Distributed Future
## Centralized Power: The Present

If you are reading this book, you are likely interested in decentralization, distributed technology, peer-to-peer architectures, or some combination of the three. If you're not, perhaps you should be! Anybody that has been paying attention during the last few years has seen some truly landmark events in terms of privacy, data soverignty, and decentralized technologies:

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Whether you are a front-end developer, a back-end developer, a user experience expert, or even a technology writer or marketer, you will play a key role in advocating and implementing distributed applications in the 21st century. This means that you, yes _you_ are on the front-lines of decentralization, and _you_ be part of building our distributed future.

## Historical Context
## How did we get here? A Historical Context

Distributed systems are nothing new, yet somehow advances in this space tend to "disrupt" more thoughougly than any VC-funded startup can ever hope to, with results that are often as tragic as they are profound.

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in 1991, the first World Wide Website went live, and what is now the most popular content and user interface layer for the internet was born. The web allowed anybody with the means to publish a website and link to other sites using their location-based addresses.

Already you can see we have a distributed infrastructure, the seeds of distributed computation, and a hyperlinked data structure. This alone

### Early Peer-to-Peer Applications

TODO: Kleppman, etc

TODO: 1999-2004 Napster, Kazaa, etc.

### The Gig Economy

TODO: The gig economy, distrbuted serfdom,

### Enter the Blockchain

The publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008, started a new renaissance in our industry. Not only did it prove out a new technology in the blockchain, but it began a new way of thinking about distributed systems in general. In addition to giving rise to a new generation of financial applications with a high degree of speculative activity, Bitcoin's underlying (and beyond computationally expensive) _proof-of-work_ algorithm gave us distributed consensus.

Thegave the industry a new focus and a new way of thinking about a critical finance. The fact that it was published by a mysterious figure, the so-called Satoshi Nakamoto, only served to mystify technologists and

### The Gig Economy

TODO: The gig economy, distrbuted serfdom,

### The New Distributed Renaissance
## The Way Out: Our Distributed Future

TODO: IPFS

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