It seems ominous if you regard telephone, radio transmission, and the internet as three different things. The pattern appears to be that an innovation lands an

It seems ominous if you regard telephone, radio transmission, and the internet as three different things. The pattern appears to be that an innovation lands and is then co-opted by pre-existing powers, who find ways to cause its open nature to be less attractive and instead morph it into something closed and read-only. However, if you view these things (and many others) are part of the same progression of the human species, things look quite a bit brighter.