I wish I was a network packet...
travelling around the globe in milliseconds, hopping through dozens of routers. Travelling in the wire, under the ocean, up into the air like a ripple.
I wish I was a network packet, travelling around the globe in milliseconds, hopping through dozens of routers. Travelling over the wire, under the ocean, up into the air like a ripple.
Do we ever take back a moment and ponder on how amazing this is! Internet is truly a marvel of human civilization, the single greatest invention.
People complain why did humans stopped building marvelous cathedrals and mahals and buildings. I say we are still building, but this age we build systems. Systems that are platform of collectively thought and expression for billions of people around us.
In what other age could you talk to another human sitting 10,000 km away from you, hear and see them live as it happens (well there is are delay, maybe not truly live but you get the point..!)