Great perspective @vimukthi!

I wonder if the internet is done a disservice though, when its 'world-changing' credit is given to 3G/4G :). This is what I mean:

I think an excellent parallel can be made between the advent of internet and that of the printing-press around 1500AD, in terms of world-changing potential. It was not the first printing press itself that did this, but what the phenomenon of printing represented and gave rise to in this regard. With improvements in technology, the printed word became more widely available, prompting people to learn to read - to access for themselves, what was hitherto hidden and/or delivered via middlemen. Exploration, a renaissance, a reformation, expanded ideas and break-out revolutions followed.

I see dialup->3G/4G/fibre optics as similar to these technological improvements - tools of increasing polish which facilitate the spread of the leap. But the leap itself is the phenomenon of the internet - WWW, a baby in 1995, and now....well, at least a pimply adolescent :D. The empowerment of the individual - the potential for it anyway - represented by the availability of info on WWW seems to me to have a parallel with what happened with the printing press. Improvements in technology and access support the process, helping to spread the fire and fan its flames, ushering human experience along in new directions.
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