In the Net's DNA there's a dominant gene for decentralization. We've moved from campus mainframes supporting thousands of users to Unix workstations supporting dozens of users to personal computers supporting you alone. Decentralization gives you access to Internet tools the way your operating system intended, plus oodles of configurability via preferences, bookmarks, hotlists, and shortcuts.
Decentralization brings liberation.
Not so on your desktop. Nor on your group's workstation. Left to its own devices, kudzu grows at an incredible rate in favorable climates, drowning states like North Carolina and Georgia in no time. But, when cultivated and cared for, kudzu can be an important ingredient in cattle feed, and a resource useful in weaving and paper making. To be sure, this is an optimistic and picturesque metaphor for the greening of the Internet.