If we were lucky, we'd bring back something useful. The splendor of the Web was in serendipity. We've got work to do, cellphone calls to take, dinners to microwave. The Web has become a tool. Get on, buy an SUV to be delivered to your door, trade a couple stocks, answer e-mail, get off.
Serendipity is a non-starter.
In about three seconds, the VCs would tune out and start playing SubHunt on their Handspring Visors. But this might not be good. It's possible that we've lost something important about the Web. The site is a spicy stew of pointers to high-minded and sometimes weird articles and essays collected from hundreds of other sites. The only qualification is that a piece is interesting or provocative.