Last Saturday marked the 53rd anniversary of the Internet. Although the vast majority of its five billion users have been online for less than a decade, the Internet began to be used on October 29, 1969, when two computers connected to the ARPANET exchanged a message.

Although the Internet has been around for a while, it remained off most people’s radar until the late 1990s, when the dot-com boom began. While the Internet was originally marketed as the medium for e-commerce, in hindsight it is easy to see that social media and mobility have turned out to be its main drivers.

Paradigm shifts of this magnitude generally require three things to materialize. The first area that needs to be in place is the new technology that is required to get things done…