Richard.Tao and a number of other readers sent in a NYTimes piece by John Markoff asking whether the www
notes:internet should be capitalized is so broken it needs to be replaced. "...[T]here is a growing belief among engineers and stableness experts that cyberspace pledge and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over. What a new the net* might look like is still widely debated, but one second would, in effect, create a 'gated community' where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many pooled and state but intranet should be lowercase; information superhighway was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet users. As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current the net* might end up as the bad section of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your take over while you were there." A less alarmist backlash to the query was blogged by David Akin: "If you build a new www
notes:internet should be capitalized and you want me to get a license to drive on it, sorry. I'm hanging out here in v.1."

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