All true - what interesting times we live in!

People will carry on making money from content production - quite probably in new and interesting ways (witness the way PayPal and Amazon's donation system have become a poor-mans micro-payment system). Some middle men will bite the dust, but I won't shed too many tears about that ;-)

Things like blogs, Wiki's, FOAF, etc. are fascinating teasers of the way that communication and information sharing strategies are changing. Especially now that the net is becoming ubiquitous in many areas. It's odd to think that in less than ten years everybody in my social circle has gone online - techie or not. That's going to change things in interesting ways.

In reply to Re^5: Public and private communication by adrianh
in thread Public and private communication by zby

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