Plasma, Lightning, Electricity, Internet

As has been previously discussed, two characterizations of the Internet are 'cloud' and 'collective consciousness'.  Now, perhaps not coincidentally, 'collective cloud' is one description of Plasma, which is distinguished from Gas by the Liquid-like coherence of its charged constituents.  Another peculiarity of Plasma is that, while, according to the latest research, it is the most abundant state of Matter elsewhere in the universe, it does not occur naturally at the surface of the Earth.  The closest it comes to that is lightning, the human harnessing of which, by Franklin, in a Leyden jar, begins the Age of Electricity, and is the origin of the phrase 'catch lightning in a bottle', i. e. literally so. So, another characterization of the Internet might be 'Plasma out of a bottle'.