The Beauty of the Internet

ISN'T THE INTERNET the most marvelous ivention yet by our dear selves? Now, we can all write books, and be published, without elaborately processing trees into paper by the billions of tons. And indeed we all could write a book, or books, and contribute to the store of human knowledge. Where is it all? In my computer, and yours? Or is it all in an extradimensional "cloud", so to speak, floating, hanging, somewhere...? In other words, what would happen to the internet if we extincted ourselves through U.S. foreign policy, or the extraterrestrials decided to spray something, and eliminate us? Would all our effort survive, if all our computers melted? Or do we need to launch a few laptops into outer space, with the internet inside them? How many websites can exist, simultaneously, in this universe? On this planet? We certainly do not want to reproduce human beings in unlimited quantity, and fill the galaxy with them, do we? But - certainly there can be no harm in producing a vast ocean of human thought and knowledge, then finding a place to safe keep it, for all eternity, once we ourselves have vanished.The problem with cable television is that it doesn't leak into outer space, for other beings to catch. I Love Lucy is still traveling across the cosmos, attenuated, but discernible. These days it seems nearly everybody is writing a book, has written one or several, or has a website or blog. This can be viewed as a healthy indication of the state of human creative health. Can you buy a kindle with every book ever written accessible? Not yet? Maybe later? I'll wait.