I think the intetnet as an ocean analogy holds water :-) The Internet is more about the information it ferries, I think, than about the data or the details of the network itself in that it has sparked a unique phenomenon, with unique impact on humanity as a whole. It has certainly broadened context in many ways, and new ways of focusing context arise all the time. For one group to try to throttle contexts will have unquestionably negative effects on the still unforseen benefits that the Internet has yet to bestow on us all. This is just my point of view, as someone who deals daily with the details of how the network itself functions. Still I find myself wanting abilities and not finding them until years later. Years ago, for example, I wanted to see the same bookmarks from any browser on any computer, since I used a number of different computers and operating systems, each for a reason. Recently, things like google bookmarks, del.icio.us and a host of others have sprung up to do just that. I have always wanted a way for things (content) I find on the internet to have 'lives' of their own, so when a piece of content moves from one home to another, I don't have to look for it again - my link to it 'knows' where it moved to. Proposals to solve just this existed prior the existance of the http protocol (mostly related to the prospero project, which in part contributed to and inspired gopher and www), but that's not here yet. Even cooler would be for all content to have context, to finding it would be intuitive and related to what it was. So, rising from the base of the internet would be tree of contexts, built by common interests ( kind of like del.icio.us does). Isolated links could graduate to relative paths that would maintain their references to the leaves on the tree. Oh well, maybe one day. Perhaps likely if nobody steps in to stop it.