In general it&#x27;s safe to assume that the world will default to thinking that you, I, and technology are all irrelevant. Like, people will say that it&#x27;s important in the same way that politicians say that voters are important.<p>So when it isn&#x27;t irrelevant, it&#x27;s because things have snuck in to change the status quo. The internet, I think, is a big enough idea that it&#x27;s still not really seen it&#x27;s full impact yet - today we just see the waxing phase of the second attempt to lock down the network under the thumb of a few centralized players. (the first one being AOL et al.) but networks are really quite powerful, and I have faith that the pendulum will shift again.