Domesticating ideas is dangerous...

Dangerous things ideas. They have a life of their own.

Right now, there are a lot of them out there looking for a home, and as with anything wild we either run away from them, or try to domesticate them so we can control them. When we fear them, they will just carry on without us, and when we domesticate them, we don't learn the lesson they are trying to teach us.

The internet is an idea that has a way to enable us to connect humans and the things we create (nature already does a great job of that at a higher level, but we'll brush over that for a moment). For the last fifty years, since ARPANET first appeared, we've been trying to do that and bend it to our will. Like a lion tamer at an old fashioned circus, it is a dangerous exercise and complacency is likely to end badly.

As technology becomes ever more powerful with AI and machine learning, pairing with the connection of everyone and everything man made to everyone else and everything else, it calls the master/ servant relationship i…