The global network of interconnected computers — originating from the US military’s ARPANET in 1969 and expanding into a worldwide civilian infrastructure from the 1990s onward — that has reorganized communication, commerce, knowledge, politics, and social life more profoundly than any technology since the printing press.
It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. Television took 13. The internet took 4. The World Wide Web took less than 3. No technology in history has spread faster or reorganized more of human life in less time. We are still inside the transformation.