That is comparable to advising someone Algore not to look down the barrel of his gun because he might invent the internet someday.
Internet was invented by the US Air Force in cooperation w/ the North American Air Defense Command as a way of communicating from NORAD Headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain Air Base with Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, WY in case of Soviet attack on Colo Springs wiped out the local telephone system. I think Al was a cable worker that helped bury the coax up the front range (ditchdigger)