Honestly, I think something akin to ZeroNet is the future for the internet. We just need a slightly better way to organize internet traffic. I am thinking something along the lines of using a cryoto-knight style blockchain network which would enable double-blind establishment of VPNs. Think of it as being almost like a TOR network handling what we use VPNs for, today. Except the blockchain would effectively re-scramble routing and nodes at each interval.
My understanding of networking is a bit behind the curve - but the basic idea is that you would never know who is making the requests or who is serving the requests. This could allow multi-layer delivery as well - for example, a request for a page download could come through a peer to peer style network whereas the download itself is routed more directly while still obscuring the sender and receiver.
The problem is that this system, to work, would effectively require the kind of hardware the tor network uses and physical locations. It could work on a mesh networking paradigm and even include a sort of etherium based "pay for hosting" style system. But it would require the infrastructure to do so and would be of limited utility over existing infrastructure as the mechanisms by which connections and packets are routed would not truly enter their own compartmentalized network. You could still use it as a sort of weird VPN-ish thing, but it would really only come into its own if people had some kind of terabit wireless routers with 50km ranges staged about everywhere with quite a host of processors hooked up to them.