We approach a critical juncture at which the /meaning/ of the Internet must divorce itself from the /infra-structure/ that gives it physical form. The composite animal body evolved so that it supports and is supported by its constituent cells, but is neither commanding nor commanded by them in detail. The dynamic assemblage of informations, functions, and processes of the global information network must also decouple control from its corporeal form.
To this end, we the political and technical and social wranglers who birthed this Internet must acknowledge that it has dynamics beyond our design, or control, and obviously beyond the best of our immediate understanding. As the final legions of inadequate cadets and last of the information barons mount an epic battle to scavenge the remains of each others' ideals from the old simplistic models, no side appears to remember our supposedly common goal of an irrevocably sustainable concert of uncertainties and contradictions. And when we do ask the right questions to discover what "information wants", the response will almost certainly not be to be the charge of @Solomon_2.0.
Humans' first act as a steward of this newest of information systems must not be to indoctrinate it into any of the coopterating clockworks of good or evil with the goal of imposing arbitrary values on fellow humans. We must not be crushed under paper shackles nor unaccountable freedoms that ablate from the clouds' return to the universe.
The global community of communities must not become _only_ a binary pigeon hole of expired local values.
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