Here’s a very timely article that pretty much sums up how I feel about media in the modern age: The internet: Everything you ever need to know.

The title is sarcastic hyperbole, but it’s well written and hits on a few very important points. He brings up the analogy of how the printing press revolutionized culture and society, and that we’re going through a similar transformation with the Interwebs. Bottom line, we’re in the middle of a massive transformation and it’s pretty much impossible to predict the outcomes until we have a bit of hindsight to properly judge.

A lot of people predicted that the printing press would be the end of society as we know it, and that ended up being mostly true for those who were making that prediction. For everyone else it was the beginning of society as we know it.