Internet: a user manual - by Henrik Karlsson

You can tap your fingers so that the world you live through the screen becomes a piece of art.

When explaining the internet to our five-year-old, Maud, I tell her that it is like an alien intelligence. We don’t exactly know what it is; it has just landed, and only the first few ships. We are still, as a culture, trying to figure out how this thing works. It did not come with a user manual. The building blocks are simple enough. It’s just a set of rules that allow people to send and receive messages, create pages and link them together. But the thing that emerges when 5.16 billion people do this at the same time? That is the alien part. People are spending, on average, six hours and…

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