That is an excellent meditation and I look forward to the rest of the series.

We are living in the end of the [first] Internet generation.

From my point of view, as an aging programmer, I see us more at the end of the second Internet generation. The first generation died in the Eternal September (but perhaps in a true Perl fashion you see that as the zeroth generation). There was an absolutely massive change at that time as it brought precisely those who know not how it works (and have no desire to know) onto the network. For those of us who lived online through it the upheaval was dramatic. There is a worry that this trend, continuing through today and partly at the instigation of those huge corporate entities who drive the net onwards, is leading to a bad place: technologically, societally and philosophically. But I'm an optimist and tend to rail against such doomsaying. We are the real guardians of the net and we will keep reinventing, improving and rejuvenating it for the benefit of all.