That sounds about right
Hello Rob, welcome. And well put: “alternatives to monolithic defaults”. The defaults part is clear: whatever our shortcomings, we try not to fall back onto thinking in defaults. The alternative parts, not so much. We are still struggling. Some immediate steps seem logical and reasonable – for example the swarm behaviour you have seen at work with today’s Twitterstorm, or projects like the unMonastery – but we have no idea where this all is going. We’ll find out together, I guess!