I think you are overstating the importance of the Internet - it's only important to human beings, and no more important than the development of memory and forethought, the development of the ego, the development of the superego, the development of language, the development of agriculture, the development of complex civilizations with cities and international commerce, the development of writing, perhaps not even the development of the printing press, although I think maybe it's about equal in importance to the printing press.
I think of it as nothing more than the convergence of the printing press, radio, television, the telephone, the telegraph, and libraries, from the physical world to the digital world. It's just a medium of communication taking advantage of how cheap storage is for digital information, and how easy that information is to transmit.
Libraries never make money. |
