That's a bit surreal since one of the underpinnings of the Internet and the way it was designed was to be decentralized.
Interestingly, because of the era of when all this started to take form, the main motivation for a decentralized Internet was driven by the fear of a nuclear strike knocking off the servers. If the network is designed to move packets from node to node dynamically so that it would automatically route around destroyed sections, then it becomes impossible to shut it down other than destroying most of the country.
I've read the article and the motivation behind this initiative and I'm still at a loss about what they think that can come out of this project that's fundamentally different from the way the Internet already works today.