I would say more. In a (not so unlikely) future, we could have all our mail server and web server run by one corporation.
Just imagine if tomorrow Google will say: “we can host your web site for free, and you can register a URL with us for free as well”. Basically a lot of people will say “why not? Better reliability, no more time in administering machines, forever backups, fast web site, …”. And then all Web sites will be hosted on Google machines, so there will be just one, big, global Web server. Technically they are already able to do it.
The same argument applies for emails of course.
This is a scary (but not too impossible) future.
I would say more. In a (not so unlikely) future, we could have all our mail server and web server run by one corporation.
Just imagine if tomorrow Google will say: “we can host your web site for free, and you can register a URL with us for free as well”. Basically a lot of people will say “why not? Better reliability, no more time in administering machines, forever backups, fast web site, …”. And then all Web sites will be hosted on Google machines, so there will be just one, big, global Web server. Technically they are already able to do it.
The same argument applies for emails of course.
This is a scary (but not too impossible) future.