alea, a possible outcome is a collection of TC architectures. Essentially, the US and maybe the UK (govts particularly) essentially have a TCG implementation. This is one presumed infiltrated by the NSA (the US gov will give in to spying on itself in exchange for at least not being spied on by non-US) and all variety of other govs or consortia will develop their own TC architectures, based largely on the same principle/pieces, but ones where the particular power (gov or consortia) believes it trusts its particular supply chain. The outcome is a fractured structure where individuals and others choose which trusted network they are going to play in / subordinate themselves to. It seems that the things that were said a decade ago and dismissed by e.g. the dubyakays about TC, spying, subordination of the user and so on are largely true. What a cluster.
The above content is my opinion.
