If the presence of the internet serves man at all, it is most significantly the subtleties of its nature. Someone who uses it may not completely understand the path of technological progress, or the path of our culture (of which the 'net is composed), but they can attribute some meaning to the word -- internet -- and largely the trappings of the word are assumed to be generally homogenous among us.
The presence of this thing which cannot be completely mapped or visualized, is inherently in flux, relies on something as delicate or capricious as our sources of energy, something that allows communication between parties while maintaining something resembling solipsism in individual participants -- a presence which we cannot deny -- this is significant.
That people can appropriate such a concept lends to the capability in people to imagine similar abstractions that were prior inaccessible.
It's unecessary that people realize this, they're already deep in it, it has an effect, it will help considerably (as it is considerably a more convincing model of such a concept than most religions can offer without the employ of hallucinogens).
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