Re:Is this accurate? (Score 1)

The thing the printing press, radio, television, the bull-horn have in common is one-way (broadcast) communication. These allow some central authority to diseminate information to a larger audience, but the audience can't respond or critique except in miniature (letters to the editor, etc.). With the internet, on the other hand, every individual has the equivalent of a broadcast transmitter. Effectively, everybody is linked (if they choose to be) to everyone else. Our new broadcast communication ability bypasses geographic boundaries. Therefore, I think that the internet does represent a revolutionary (rather than evolutionary) change in how people inter-relate, and thus how society functions.