I was on a long road trip in Italy when the news broke: Jony Ive leaves Apple!

It was twenty years ago this month that the cover of the adorably geeky Boardwatch Magazine, a journal dedicated to the world of Bulletin Board Systems ( BBS, remember them?), featured bearded professor Vint Cerf, the grandfather of the Internet: Cerf's pithy IP On Everything prophecy was simple, resonant, and inexorable: All objects in our lives will someday feature an IP Stack.