I think we will look back on this early era of technology with great nostalgia, as sort of a modern wild west. Where people 50 years from now will think "My god

I think we will look back on this early era of technology with great nostalgia, as sort of a modern wild west. Where people 50 years from now will think "My god, could you really just get online and do whatever the hell you wanted with no consequences? How insane is that?", in the same way that we now think "My god, could you really just go out west and stake a claim of free land in Kansas for yourself? How insane is that?". As the boundary between the digital and physical world increasingly ceases to exist, I fully expect that we will eventually be required to provide full identification at the ISP level to access the web.