That Would Be Telling@drq @silverpill @cjd “[The Internet] has been since its inception as a part of the nuclear project - when maintaining atomic warfare parity between states was crucial.”
Not sure if you’re correct there; packet switching was (drilling down now to Wikipedia, but credibly) envisioned to make SAGE communications more robust in the middle of a nuclear war.
The ARPANET though, the very direct precursor to the Internet was developed to allow scientists etc. to share then very scarce computer resources. Arguably part of “the nuclear project” but much much removed from it.
Ultimately I think we have to win in the greater world, which I see possible after a preference cascade, or fall back to old concepts like USENET and create our own, almost certainly text with a few pictures only parallel network.
Although that’s getting more interesting as more and more things citizens and subjects of country need to use the net for basic things. In the meanwhile? The only paperless billing you should sign up for is your Internet providers. Not yet to the Father Coughlin stage of denying us access to the snail mail postal system.
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