Some op-ed pieces and getting mocked by people for being a nerd do not demonstrate to me a fundamental disagreement about the usefulness of the internet amongst

Some op-ed pieces and getting mocked by people for being a nerd do not demonstrate to me a fundamental disagreement about the usefulness of the internet amongst people who understood what it was. Ignorance is annoying, but it is easily remedied by exposure and knowledge. Contrast this with a cryptocurrency technologies, which are completely understood at this point and still lack legit real-world use at scale beyond speculation and yet it is constantly claimed that 'it just takes time for brilliant technology to find a use case'. As far as I can recall, this has never been the case in the modern world -- every paradigm changing technology has had an immediate and obvious application where it greatly surpassed anything before it, regardless of if it took years or decades to build infrastructure and educate people on how to use it.