I don't disagree with that at all. However, micropayments have come out before, many times, in many different iterations. It never got any traction. Again, I'd love to see a different model of monetizing the web too, I just don't have any reason to believe this is it.

With iPhones, nobody wanted it until they got it, but then they couldn't get enough of it - even though it started out only doing a fraction of what people wanted to use it for.

With micropayments they've had it several times and each time they said "no thank you please."