A fulcrum is a pivot point used for leverage. Fulcrums are one way that people realize greater power to move things. Place a long board above a fulcrum and set that fulcrum close to the thing that you want to lift and you realize this power.
People leverage great power through computer interfaces, which allow them to interface with a great store of information and wide access to people. Software and its graphical analogies of information and space allow people to readily comprehend and effect action through computer interfaces. The fulcrum that search allows us is great. We can key in a search term and magically produce millions of pages of information with relevance decaying by the distance of the scroll from the top.
And here we are, before an interface, tied to a unique IP, a single point in a vast pond of data. That fulcrum point is the IP address-delineated interface itself. And here we are but inches from it, tapping and swiping away. Set that fulcrum close to the thing that you want to lift and you realize this power.
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