We are living in an age of incredible technological advancement. The world is being transformed by it–the way we think, learn, communicate and live has been torn down and rebuilt within the past fifteen years. And yet, no one who lived before the Internet’s ubiquity could possibly have forseen how far it would reach. Today, living without systems like Wikipedia, AIM, Google, Facebook and Twitter is unthinkable. Within the last fifteen years, the Internet has already transformed public discourse, revolutionized content distribution, and redefined communication for everyone with easy access to it. Businesses race to it, visionaries build upon it, enthusiasts deconstruct it, establishments fear it.

Some take it for granted. Some even think the current Internet developments are a bubble (as they say in the Dismal Science). I don’t. I think the advances the Internet has brought are here to stay, and improve. I believe the Internet is a development that easily surpasses the invention of the printing press in importance, and that it collectively has the potential to become greater than the sum total of all human development that preceded it. And I believe I’m unbelievably lucky to have been born in the earliest generation that gets to define it, allowing me and everyone I know to personally witness its developments, setbacks, controversies and breakthroughs.

So what next? A prominent article about the movers and shakers of the Internet recently implored them to “Never. Stop. Innovating. Never. Never. Never.” Innovation will always continue, undoubtedly to places where we can’t possibly fathom now. And I’m unbelievably excited to see it happen.

So that’s what I’ll write about here: how technology, especially the Internet, is changing the world. The future is bearing down on us, and I for one am excited.