And then it expanded to universities, some universities. And then it expanded to everyone. Nobody controls the internet now. This is one of the frightful things about electromagnetic proximity. It's the immediacy.
Technologies always have momentum.
Bu when that momentum is also immediate, it seems all that remains possible, all that is left, is to react. So the military man who once dominated the environment is now left confused by the speed of the event. The military, at least in the United States, does what our civil masters tell it to do. If they say restore democracy in Haiti, that's not something the military would dream up on its own. The military is sent all over the place all the time for things that have nothing to do with war.