Talkin' bout a media revolution: Forty years ago, music was leading a social revolution, disrupting the establishment and empowering a new generation.
Today's web technology and social media, known as Web 2.0, or the second wave of the internet, are leading a similar challenge and the long-term effects are likely to be greater.
Once again we are divided into those who get it and those who don't. There is hyperventilating on the blog barricades about the end of the old order and the birth of the new counter-culture, information anarchy.