At some point I am confident that the mainstream use of the internet will evolve into something very similar to Tor. It will protect user privacy in ways that can't be defeated without machine access/user idiocy. We will look back on the days of our ISPs logging every single action we take, into perpetuity, to be forever used against you, as the dark ages.
Everyone daydreams of activists and journalists but really they're only enabling child pornographers and methamphetamine dealers.