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Author re-discovers ARPANet and recognises the;

  "need to embrace a network where every service and node operates on
  a peer-to-peer, fully decentralized basis."
Very seldom in these pieces is there the stomach for politics. Isn't it recognised that the greatest enemy of this "Pure Internet" has always been the media and entertainments business, who poured hundreds of billions over five decades into stifling p2p because they could never let go of a broadcast/dissemination model? And does it even need saying that cowering paranoiacs in governments are delighted with five giant centralised websites, because that's their choke point?

Let's deal with the reasons the Internet is failing before mulling over already solved technical solutions.