You know what this is about? It's about information. 
Take coal and diamonds. They're the same stuff, it's just the arrangement of their molecules which makes them so radically different. That arrangement is information. It's the code, the order of construction, the "method"... it's the information and it's the salvation of man.
A bundle of wires and plastic sheets and blobs of solder is nothing really, it's just raw materials, until it's assembled in just the right way and: "hey presto" you've got yourself a computer to download, edit, upload, watch, copy, rip, burn and distribute porn.
Long strings of amino acids and protein? Big deal. But get them in just the right order and you have a unique biological life form.
This is what's so important about information; it's the missing step between chaos and divinity. It's the link in the chain between great festering heaps of matter and intricate, functional organisms, machines and equipment.
This is why the internet is so important: it is a means of conveying human information to the masses (by the masses, for the masses). It's the first ever mass-to-mass information interface and it enables people all over the world to share ideas, plans, data, concepts, facts and nonsense.
Some people think that "information" should only refer to scientific fact or "meaningful" data. I disagree. I think anything winging its way across billions of meters of data cables is information and that the nonsense and gibberish is every bit as significant as the "meaningful data". Why? Well, it's because it's up to US, the end-users, to determine whether or not the information we are receiving has any worth. It is up to us to filter our search results and to ignore that which we do not want or need. this is an evolutionary step: the internet has opened the floodgates -everyone has an opinion. Everyone has their own blog (I have about four) everyone has a website, everyone cherishes their own mix-and-match part-science, part-spiritualist philosophy. Everyone talks and talks and talks about television and music and celebrities and sex and relationships and the economy and climate change and it goes on and on and on and the only thing we can do is:
choose which information has meaning and importance for ourselves
I see a day in the distant future when technology is affordable and available enough for every single man and woman on the planet to have unlimited, free access to the internet. Maybe not within our lifetimes, but I see the day when even the very poorest, most underprivileged people on the planet have access to all the information they require: information about their corrupt government, information about what's in their drinking water reservoir, information about how to grow crops more successfully in arid conditions, information about sexually transmitted disease, hygiene and sanitation, employment opportunities, aid organisations, alternative power, alternative fuels, alternative medicine... information to boost us another rung up the evolutionary ladder. Information to unite the species, to create a single, constantly evolving hive mind: where all of the achievements, plans and ideas of the species are alive on the internet, available for anyone to adopt, develop, improve upon. Assuming we can hone our ability to disregard the information which has no value, we can continue to expand our intellectual understanding of the universe around us and continue to add to this great databank of human achievement.
Long live information.