https://berjon.com/internet-transition/ “Computer people may be surprised by this statement because of the common belief that improvements in information-processing capabilities is the exclusive province of (digital) technology — but it isn’t. Technology& institutions are certainly intermeshed, notably in that some institutional forms are impossible or at least implausibly daunting without some specific technologies (eg. writing or money),& it can be hard to tease out if one created the other.”