After reading author John Naughton's editorial on the changes wrought by Gutenberg's movable type and Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, Steve Yelvington sharedsome succinct observations about the incredible changes brought on by the Internet: "We are in the midst of a social change so vast it is beyond our comprehension."

Steve, on the impact a lightning storm which struck his home and knoced out his Internet connection had on his family: " My kids would have been happier if they'd been tossed overboard mid-Atlantic. The telephone and television are trivial by comparison. Panic set in. McLuhan was right when he said invention is the mother of necessities."

The ubiquity of the Internet, Steve concludes, has caused it to "become an extension of our minds, and we take it for granted, until it suddenly disappears."