Something to think about:

More Band-Aids or Surgery?

‘Humans are good at ignoring problems. Things get worse slowly. People adjust. The problem is assigning the correct degree of fear to distant elephants.' (1992, MIT's David D. Clark)

Clark was referring to the uncontrolled growth of the Internet and the many problems that have surfaced over the years without any concerted effort to avoid them – we've just had to deal with them.

By 2005 Clark believed that the elephants had arrived and the patched, virus laden, unsupervised Internet was extremely vulnerable. More than a billion people were using the Internet; problems were getting worse, at the same time that society's dependence on it was deepening.

It's now 2007- what has changed?

Sounds depressing and alarmist? So, What should we do?   Should we close the Internet down? Effect some significant changes? Create an entirely new one?  

Who is the “we” in those questions?