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We all know the world is flat. Thomas Fried­man said so.

We can get nearly any­thing deliv­ered to our door or find where it is online. That was Web 1.0.

Now we can reach and inter­act with nearly any­one we’d like to. Sta­tus, geog­ra­phy and lan­guage mean less than ever before. Nat­u­rally, you’d assume that there wouldn’t be another rul­ing class with more power than the rest of us? Not every­one seems to think so.

Com­pa­nies still aren’t talk­ing to their cus­tomers. Big pub­li­ca­tions like the NYT (I HATE this arti­cle) are chron­i­cling PR attempts to gar­ner press. And what do they do? GO STRAIGHT AFTER THE BIG NAMES. Time and time again. Where’s the flattening?

Except that old approach doesn’t work. At all. Community-driven, somewhat-democratic super blogs now have the con­trol. Acces­si­ble by most and free to all, it’s time we all real­ize this is the great­est change we will ever expe­ri­ence. Good­bye Indus­trial Rev­o­lu­tion, hello Infor­ma­tion Revolution.

Our lives will never, ever be the same. I’m ready for it. Are you?

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Arkayne recommends

• The Long Dark Night of the Soul (Ryan Sut­ter)
• Corn At The Edge of the Field (Arthur)
• The True Cause of Depres­sion (Arthur)