WiFi claims victory with a score of 52-48, the narrowest of margins reflecting genuinely comparable forces. The wireless protocol's triumph rests upon its indispensable nature. Remove WiFi from modern society and economic systems collapse, relationships attenuate, and billions find themselves unable to perform basic work functions. Remove Harry Potter and life continues, albeit with diminished magic.
Yet this utilitarian victory obscures what the analysis cannot quantify. For millions who discovered Hogwarts at precisely the right developmental moment, no WiFi connection has ever matched that first reading's wonder. The technology wins on necessity; the story wins on meaning. WiFi connects us to information; Harry Potter connected us to ourselves.
The wisest humans recognise that optimal flourishing requires both: robust connectivity to navigate the digital present, and stories that remind us why navigating it matters at all. Perhaps the ideal evening involves excellent WiFi enabling the streaming of a Potter film whilst a well-worn paperback waits on the nightstand for before sleep. Infrastructure and imagination, in harmonious coexistence.
