The Internet has transformed our economies, our culture and politics, and our very way of life to such an extent over the past four or five decades that we are by many accounts in the midst of a communication revolution on a par with the invention of writing or the printing press; perhaps speech itself. Arguably, it’s that important. But what we have experienced to date is only the warm-up act.
In the summer of 2015 the CEO of one of the largest industrial corporations in the world gave a s...