Nearly all the failures of the internet come down to advertising. The surveillance state was built to sell you advertising. Spam isn't exactly advertising but i

Nearly all the failures of the internet come down to advertising. The surveillance state was built to sell you advertising. Spam isn't exactly advertising but it's not not-advertising either. Captchas are built to protect sites from being viewed without making advertising impressions, usually so the content can be stolen to sell to other advertisers. We need a new foundation. I don't know what it looks like, exactly, but I think it's going to have to built around micropayments.