Maybe we're already supposed to have flying cars and personal spaceships by now, but we're essentially "grounded" as a species by an elite.

If we can move things in 3d space the way information moves in cyberspace, the whole world changes. We don't need a social internet when you can travel to the opposite side of the planet in a few minutes.

Maybe the true purpose of our internet is, and has always been, to create bitcoin, and then sustain it. Bitcoin was born out the internet, but perhaps if events were different, in another timeline, we would create the internet because of bitcoin.