The last paragraph is the money quote in Lev Grossman's article, Person of the Year: You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.
But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.
(emphasis mine)
This is why authenticty matters. The Internet facilitates personal relationships, or at least a sense of having personal relationships.
Thanks to Matt O. for the heads up :)
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