Regarding a return of Linda, I couldn't help but note similar themes when first learning about Amazon's Dynamo and later, the Apache Cassandra Project. I'm not saying that there's a perfect match, but when one's imagination has academic roots in the era of Linda, it was easy to see a connection through that lens.

Anyone else see the potential there?

At the very least, it influences how I might use something like Cassandra (or dbm files for that matter), and I've been planting the meme for others to approach their designs that way too.