But in terms of communications the real future is mesh networks
That's basically what federated services are. If one instance goes down, the content is still hosted on thousands of other instances that chose to relay it or interacted with it in some way. But as for using your own internet infrastructure, that's going to be a long ways away unless you have access to your own satellite or cell towers. For what it's worth there's federated services that can run on Tor, I2P, or even gopher!
That's basically what federated services are. If one instance goes down, the content is still hosted on thousands of other instances that chose to relay it or interacted with it in some way. But as for using your own internet infrastructure, that's going to be a long ways away unless you have access to your own satellite or cell towers. For what it's worth there's federated services that can run on Tor, I2P, or even gopher!