KEYNOTE · 2026
The Internet
& Technology
How a network of networks rebuilt the modern world.
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01 · SCALE
The internet at a glance
The largest machine humanity has ever built — and nobody owns it.
0B people online today
0B websites live right now
0Tbps single-fibre record
0in 10 adults own a smartphone
02 · ORIGINS
Fifty-seven years in five moves
- 1969
ARPANET sends its first message
- 1989
Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
- 1998
Search turns the web into an economy
- 2007
The smartphone puts it all in a pocket
- 2022
Generative AI lands in the browser
03 · IMPACT
Where the value actually moved
DomainBefore the internetNow
RetailLocal shop, local stockGlobal catalogue, same-day delivery
MediaBroadcast to millionsStreamed to one person at a time
WorkOffice, fixed hoursDistributed, asynchronous, measured
MoneyBanks and paperAPIs, wallets, instant settlement
KnowledgeLibraries and gatekeepersOpen corpora and AI retrieval
04 · TENSION
Opportunity and exposure travel together
What it gave us
- Access: a village school reaches a capital's libraries
- Speed: research that took a decade takes a quarter
- Voice: publishing costs nothing, so anyone can speak
What it asks of us
- Privacy: attention is the currency of the free web
- Trust: misinformation travels faster than correction
- Equity: 2.6B people are still offline
05 · HORIZON
The next wave is already arriving
01
AI-native web
Browsers that act on your behalf, not just answer questions.
02
Satellite mesh
Coverage without towers, from the Arctic to the open ocean.
03
Edge compute
Milliseconds of intelligence where the user actually stands.
04
Quantum-safe crypto
Rebuilding trust in transit before the locks are picked.
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The internet is no longer a place we visit.
It is the medium we think in.
The defining shift of the 2020s
06 · CLOSE
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