It digitizes coal sludge and computer signals in Novosibirsk. The Internet, as we know it and use it, is just a small section of the skin of the seething globe of digital signals. We're only just now learning to read these, although it may be that centuries ago, mystics could also read the same information. Other technologies are beginning to make their claims, facilitated by the seeming omnipresence and omniscience of the Net. But the nanotechnologists, the subparticle people, the galaxy readers and so on can all yield to the Digital Masters.
Nothing quite beats on-off.
The galaxy created 20 trillion years before our own is either there or it isn't. Once I accompanied a gentleman friend when he needed a CAT scan. I knew things about this man he didn't even know about himself. So ladies and gents, girls and boys. Twirl your partner.