I just received an email from a developer in Denmark with whom I’m developing an application. It took minutes to type a reply to him, and seconds for it to travel halfway around the world.
I also converse regularly with a friend in Australia. In real-time. It seems like he is still living across town, yet he’s on the other side of the planet.
The Internet is still astonishing. At no time in history has the world been so interconnected, our planet so small. Everyday people have the miraculous power of instant communications from anywhere on the globe, to anywhere on the globe.
This is the world my daughter’s being born into. Her world will be one where national boundaries will be for convenience only, where any space can be traversed instantaneously. It will be exciting to see what kind of world gets built on this revolutionary foundation.