"Oh, do a lot of people have a blog?"

"Most people don't but anyone can, it's free."

"Can anyone look at them?"

"Yes! Though it can be hard to find the good ones, there are ways to search the internet but you have to do a lot of the quality filtering yourself."

"Is the internet a sort of library?"

"Yeah, kinda. The biggest least curated library of all time."

"...That's sort of amazing, I think?"

"The internet is awesome."

"How does it... work?"

"Sounds like the kind of thing you can learn on Wikipedia." Haru opens the page for the internet in a new tab.

Lucien gets lost very quickly, but helpfully there are other articles which explain all the things! Such as one on global communication networks in general, and then one on submarine communications cables (which Lucien already knows about) and then one on cable layer ships (which Lucien has always wanted to ride) and then one on transatlantic communications cables and then on TAT-1 in particular and ...

Eventually Haru puts a plate of macaroni and cheese in front of him.

"Oh wow this is delicious," Lucien manages to say inbetween Wikipedia articles on coaxial cables and cable television.

"Thanks, I made it according to package directions myself."

"Can everyone just make high quality food now?"

"What you have there is KD, it's déclassé as anything. Whether it is 'high quality' is subject to some debate. Do you want ketchup?"

"You put ketchup on macaroni and cheese in the future?" Lucien has had both separately.

"Some people do. It's optional." He offers the squeeze bottle.

"I suppose I can try it."

... How is this bottle supposed to work. 

...he takes it back and squirts a dollop of ketchup on the side of the plate.

"That is a more impressive piece of technology than I expected in ketchup bottles."

"The globalized economy is very cool."

"Because... it requires a bunch of different processing steps that different places do?" Lucien guesses.

"Because if someone invents a better ketchup bottle they can get a little fraction of the profits off selling condiments in better bottles to billions of people."

"Oh wow that is very cool."