Could be a reason to shoot for the digital stars, to dematerialize unto Valhalla.
In all seriousness, if we think about what separated the Old Normal from the New Normal, it might just have need a certain tug. Tugged by who? This is where I differ from the conspiracy oriented, who attribute humanity to the force doing the tugging, one cabal or another.
But it isn't humanity going the tugging - humanity just learns to channel the forces, interpret them, capitulate to them, imperfectly. Loss of information, or rather an imperfect and exhaustible processing of it. Because we cannot process a higher ontology than our own, we resort to understanding it in terms of our own ontology, the highest we know.
And I believe we can effectively think of such things as brands, ideologies, and trends as higher order phenomena, things that are so complex as to take our own complexity as its point of departure, the point from which it moves.
So the physical body of one such higher order phenomenon, the internet, does not need to exceed ours in complexity.
I haven't looked into the hardware architecture of the internet, with transoceanic fiber optic cables and whatever, but I doubt it comes anywhere near the human body in terms of physical complexity.
And this difference spans orders of magnitude of variation across information storage capacity, processing speeds - the space/time analog of the digital, no?
And across that difference, critical concatenations lay nascent in future limbo, awaiting to be realized, awaiting to spread. What is so shocking about pointing out the functions that float higher than us, that move faster than us, that seem unbound to such mundane constraints as locality? Need we praise them as if they were Gods, each one, or can we just diligently study them?
And how different is a praising from a diligent studying?