A friend posted a link to this article. It seems a young'un has discovered #Plan9 and sees its distributed design as the future of operating systems.

I ran a #9p grid in the 1990s doing distributed computing research, and ran #Plan9, Amoeba, Sprite; so many utopian operating systems. They all were wonderful, and they all are very lonely. It really hurts seeing good ideas completely ignored for something good enough, but I hold out hope that some young buck will rediscover all these ideas, and pretend to have invented them. It really is the best case scenario.