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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
6/18/2007 9:32 PM |
I’ve been looking into a few of the possibilities offered by the Internet lately. Time was, a few years back, if you wanted a radio station or a TV station, first you had to raise millions of dollars, hire a gaggle of attorneys, apply to the Federal Communications Commission for a license, and jump through dozens of legal hoops just to arrive at the day when you could first flip the switch and go on the air.
Now, any kid with a cheap camera, microphone, laptop and an Internet connection can do essentially the same thing.
It may not be quite as elegant, but even that can come, with a bit of time and experience. And it’s a darn sight cheaper!
The Internet is so massive, so all-consuming that it threatens to transform society. Let’s see now – long distance phone calls, mail, publishing, radio and TV – the Internet is the first force for social change that allows virtually ANYONE the ability to reach a huge audience, and to derive whatever income that contact can produce.
The titans of the communications industry are all busily working to carve out whatever chunks of the massive world-wide audience they can, and they are competing against teen-aged geeks who are busily squeezing whatever resources they can simulate on their laptops into the process. It truly is a changing world, and a rapidly changing one, at that. Names we’d never heard used formally a decade or so ago, have popped up on some of the most rapidly appreciating properties in the world. Google, Yahoo, YouTube, MySpace and many others – are fomenting a revolution in everyday life, and it’s hard to predict exactly what all this may lead to.
But whatever that final destination is, it’s sure to be one heck of an exciting ride – why not hop on, and join the rest of us, as we carom and ricochet away into the Great Unknown? |
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