Battle for the Soul of Internet

In response to a Time article from 2005:

I semi-agree with the author that the danger of using the internet is that it's too public. I think that the downfall of the internet is that people do not have to act under their true identities.

I'm not sure if I agree with the statement that the web was not ready to conduct business in 2005. While I was not making purchases online at this time due to my lack of a credit card, I know people who were. eBay was widely popular at the time and although there may have been scams, there are still scams online today so if that's the basis of saying the public is or isn't ready for business on the web, then we are still not ready today.