If you haven't run across it, you should read up on Ted Nelson's Xanadu project. I've heard different arguments for why that failed. I think the likeliest is j

If you haven't run across it, you should read up on Ted Nelson's Xanadu project. I've heard different arguments for why that failed. I think the likeliest is just that simple and dumb is often more successful than complex and nuanced. > I think convention is the primary obstacle At this point, I think the existence of the web as it is is the primary obstacle. Business models built on laws and case rulings depend on links as they currently exist. So changes here would need to get buy in from those folks, browser makers, standards body folks (but I repeat myself), and then would have to somehow be reconciled with laws that make assumptions about how they work. Easy peasy.