I've considered this perspective as well from a lower level. I'm a huge fan of gossip-style communication, and I've wondered why all my data is shredded across various databases when it could be all located within a single giant JSON on my phone, and then I could just gossip a version to my friends.

The key is privacy at the data-layer, and I have a start with my programming language for board games: http://www.adama-lang.org/