[LINK] How wikileaks was an inevitable result of the internet

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:46 AM 17/12/2010, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > But what really matters is that the disruptive power of the 
> internet has been conclusively demonstrated, and the old order has 
> been  provoked to respond.
> >
> > This is democracy's Napster moment, the point at which the forms 
> of governance that have evolved over 200 years of industrial 
> society prove wanting in the face of the network, just as the 
> business models of the recording industry were swept away by the 
> ease with which the internet could transmit perfect digital copies 
> of compressed music files.

Is this what the Matrix was really about all along? I may have to 
re-watch that trilogy with a whole new mindset.

Jan



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