 Approaching Critical Mass.
Slowly, over the past few months, my whole perception of the blogging phenomena has undergone a paradigm shift. I now see that blogs are part of an authentic revolution in information distribution and represent a new way in which the web is organizing itself to facilitate contact between real people in the real world. As part of series of revolutionary updates in information distribution beginning with the printing press, when blogs are adopted by a sufficiently large number of people they will achieve critical mass and set off profound and far-reaching changes in our society, politics, and the direction in which the global information infrastructure is evolving.
Furthermore, I believe that when Critical Mass is achieved, it will set off a series of changes that we cannot even begin to imagine or predict. Personally, I hope they include the chance to wrest away control of the global stream of consciousness from the cabal of suits who currently direct it hither and thither from glass and steel palaces in New York and LA. And at the risk of sounding like a sci-fi wacko, in my heart of hearts, I suspect that if allowed to develop sufficient cells and synapses, the world-wide blogosphere and the infrastructure that underlies it may evolve a completely new kind of collective consciousness.[Dowbrigade News]
Above is just two paragraphs from Michael Feldman's post. Be sure to read the whole thing. Not sure if all that he envisions will come to pass but sure hope some of it does. (LP)
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