The author confuses the web with the Internet. Lots of those ideas, especially regarding two-way links, security and automatic micropayments, have already been

The author confuses the web with the Internet. Lots of those ideas, especially regarding two-way links, security and automatic micropayments, have already been proposed and failed by Project Xanadu. One of the Web precessors. The web succeeded over 'better' alternatives, because on a system where the whole world has to agree on a standard, the unix philosophy of 'worse is better' always wins.