Is is incapable of separate existence apart from its ecosystem. If we can casually remove ourselves from our mutual commitments then we haven't any web at all. And if we preach web from this vantage point, we're engaged instead in an act of self-deception. However, if the viable unit is the tribe or web, then we have a chance of changing the world. Organizations and ecosystems take time to build.
Transformations take time and stable networks to effect.
I used to think this was too long. Now I think it's too short. The connection ought to last much longer. Simply because the rate of technological change increases at some geometric rate doesn't necessarily imply that all transformations on a human scale should follow suit. Some things require a lifetime to learn and can't be gained in a 30 second sound bite.