Open source society-- world is changing

Joichi Ito, the director of MIT's Media Lab, wrote and essay that appeared on the New York Times site yesterday. He begins with the observation that "The Internet isn't really a technology" and continues to explain how the global network is changing the rules for participating in culture. Through these networks small groups of people can create and test ideas that change how everyone does everything (Google and FaceBook were both started in and run from dorm rooms before "going viral").

I suppose this is what Marshall McLuhan meant when he observed "the medium is the message."

In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants