The internet is not technology. The internet is not technology. The internet is not a technology. It uses technology, and it drives technology, but the internet itself is not technology. The internet is an agreement.
Agreements are the most powerful forces in the universe.
Agreeing to speak a common language, agreeing on an alphabet, the Magna Carta, the U.S. constitution, are all great agreements of history. And every day our shared agreement that we exist, that we will count the other as real and not a simulation, drives us forward out of sleep and into the arms and eyes and ears of our colleagues. The internet is an agreement about how computers will talk. That agreement drives technology, because now it can be incredibly cheap. That agreement drives commerce because there is a common ground for discussion, and on which to build.