How 'Netro'

I've been having a realisation that I quite enjoy. Every historical medium is now being available on the web. Writing, audio, video, recorded and stored indefinitely, or performed live and gone. It's all there. The written word is important again. The spoken word is important again. Images, motion picture, every medium we've ever known -- it's all there.

Despite the fact that it's flawed, co-opted, diluted and polluted, the internet is living up to all the dreams that everyone has had for it. It's re-becoming an encyclopedia and a self-regulating democratic conversation forum and turning away from being just the corporate catalogue that it seemed doomed to become.

The internet doesn't bring us much new in and of itself, but it summarises everything that has gone before it, and that has immense value. Hopefully we'll be able to make some semblance of sense of things before we are propelled on to what's next.