The present article introduces the digital realm as a dynamic, Darwinian ecosystem, and develops an account of information technology (IT), its evolution, and a road-map for its potential future development. The article then examines the constraints and the evolutionary pressures acting upon IT through an analysis of the subconscious representations that model the domain in the current discipline of IT. The investigation examines the principles of its conceptual models along with the conditions that permit these models to arise and flourish. The article concludes by proposing a number of novel representational concepts for communications that show future promise as well as an exploration of possible new models of the Future Internet.