Years ago I posted that the internet was indeed a miracle, and only due to sheer luck does it exist in anything resembling its current form. Reed Hundt objected, saying it was due to design by smart people. He was, of course, correct. I didn't mean luck in the sense that we found a shiny penny, I meant lucky in the sense that when smart people were inventing it and Al Gore was making sure it happened, nobody had enough "sense" to stop it. That is, the entrenched interests didn't see it as a direct or indirect threat, and no one informed Senator Hatch that in a couple of years his granddaughter would have a porn machine on her desk.
It could have been very very different. As it could be in the future.
