Just like Bitcoin and Ethereum before, the Internet Computer (IC) introduces numerous concepts, and bends reality, making it hard to grasp:

1/ The IC does things that are MEANT TO BE IMPOSSIBLE.

Hmmm sounds scammy, ignore??..!... ..

2/ The IC provides a seamless continuum that hosts secure software and its data in cyberspace. This has UNBOUNDED CAPACITY, just like the Internet

Total BS! Blockchains don’t scale!

3/ Transactions carry invocations of hosted software. There is no tx/s limit. The intention is to process TRILLIONS OF TX every second

Wait, but how many transactions does is it process today ;) ?

4/ Hosted “software canisters” (an evolution of smart contracts) bundle code and state. The IC is able to store ANY TOTAL VOLUME of state data.

Caught you out!! It’s impossible to sync an infinitely large chain!

5/ The IC and software canisters REIMAGINE SOFTWARE and are designed as a complete replacement for legacy IT, not just smart contracts..

OMG. You people are delusional! Do you know how optimized cloud computing and databases are today? Legacy IT took years to evolve!!

6/ Canisters running on the IC can serve HTTP requests directly from cyberspace into a Web browser. Securely, without intermediaries, and at WEB SPEED.

What’s wrong with creating a untrusted website that provides an interface to smart contracts??? I love using AWS!!!

7/ The IC provides a framework that enables devs to easily build secure, autonomous internet services that scale out. Go and create “OPEN NETFLIX”

Bah I can make scalable dapps too. Just use lots of individual chains linked via Cosmos or Polkadot, and IPFS for storage! I think..

8/ The IC shrinks “gas” costs to make them TEENSY-WEENSY. The cost is constant and predictable. Execution and storage are cheap. The price relates to the cost of the underlying hardware in the network.

Gas markets decide what tx are in next block to mediate constrained resource!

9/ IC developers DON’T NEED FILES. Coding in their language of choice, their data persists automatically in their variables and objects. It’s called “orthogonal persistence” and reflects the shrinking distance between non-volatile and main memory hardware.

I like data in files!

10/ The IC runs WebAssembly byte code that can be compiled from ANY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. Currently SDKs exist for Rust & Motoko, a new language created by a team led by Andreas Rossberg, the co-creator of WebAssembly.

A language called "Motoko" cannot succeed!

11/ PoW rewards electricity burning, and PoS rewards staking on nodes. The IC disburses constant rewards for each standardized “node machine” whose continuous processing does not statistically deviate making low cost scaling possible

I never heard of that! Not Satoshi! Cant work

12/ The DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit terminator dedicated to the IC's success. It has built an elite R&D organization incorporating multiple disciplines worldwide. In perpetuity it will continue funding ever expanding R&D to support IC.

Elitist. Centralized. Expensive!

13/ Most blockchains are cobbled together from an open source buffet of existing technology. The IC relies heavily on novel science created by an R&D powerhouse. Some of the new crypto will soon blow people's minds

What's not already open source doesn’t exist. Share it now!!

14/ The IC is a fully adaptive network, which is controlled by an open algorithmic governance system called the Network Nervous System, which resides in-protocol. This manages everything from economics to network structure.

Sounds like sci-fi! And is it The Code Is Law???

15/ The Internet Computer passes through 5 major milestones en route to public network launch...

Done:
Copper - November 19
Bronze - January
Tungsten - June

Next...
Sodium - September
Mercury - EoY 2020 Launch

Hmmm. Tungsten was cool!