The internet is so vast we need to get theological to grasp it

Reveries of the connected world opens with a tour of the pale green room at the University of California, Los Angeles, where the internet was invented. This is a “holy place”, says our guide, computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock, and the first message sent from the computer here was “prophetic”.

“Tentatively, avidly, or kicking and screaming, nearly 2 billion of us have taken up residence on the Internet, and we’re still adjusting to it.” And we are moving rapidly into a reality where we are no longer permitted to live outside its influence.