This article is just navel gazing, and commentary on a relatively recent phenomena that doesn’t have any bearing on how thought and life has evolved. What has truly changed the way we live? Agriculture, Religion, Reasoning, and so on. In more tangible terms, it has been things like the printing press, light bulb, planes, transistors, etc.

The internet wouldn’t really be a thing without transistors, so I don’t really count it. I wouldn’t even say that nuclear power changed anything about the way we live, not really—its practical damaging potential is just as easily achieved via other means, which are easier to control and manage.