I think this comparison is all wrong. The internet is more closer to the notion of a wheel - the internet has done amazing stuff just as the wheel has and nobody foresaw the impact the internet would have and how the underlying technologies that power it have evolved.

Just like how a wheel moves stuff, the internet is the medium through which bits are transmitted and received.

Thanks for your view! My analogy was intentional—I wanted to talk about revolutionary tools that extend human capabilities, not about the foundational infrastructure itself. Of course, the internet is a fundamental platform like the wheel, but I’m focusing on what’s built on top of that—how new tools like predictive inference change the landscape again. Analogies can work at different layers. I just chose the tool, not the medium.