There still seems to be so much opportunity left in the internet. I would like to already live in the future where those opportunities are realized. There must

There still seems to be so much opportunity left in the internet. I would like to already live in the future where those opportunities are realized. There must be something like the steam engine of the internet. Like the Romans, we most likely already know the ingredients of the next industrial revolution, but we don't apply them because we have other means to solve our problems. My best guess is that a social network could be the missing part. The printing press brought cheap paper for scientists to have space for notes which brought mechanization and thus the need for power. Currently, we go directly for automated thoughts, but we don't have significantly more or different thinking space than the generations before us, just faster mail.