> I fear it would turn out equivalent. One argument against this is that the web today is not set up for easy authoring by end users (in fact, it's gotten more

> I fear it would turn out equivalent. One argument against this is that the web today is not set up for easy authoring by end users (in fact, it's gotten more difficult to "make websites" as the web has progressed). But there was a hypermedia system around two decades ago that had authoring in mind from the start — hypercard — that could have been a good prototype for a "real web". If you have authoring as a primary consideration than perhaps one-directional, consumer oriented cultures of technology would not be so prominent. But who knows.