


"This can be extended to today's media environment of turbulence and volatility, in which news travels faster and further than ever before. The Iranian president again calls for the annihilation of Israel, and Bin Laden and Al-Zarqawi disseminate new messages on the internet and to satellite TV channels. Events in one part of the world feed back instantly into the politics of another, and linear, machine models of top-down cultural control no longer explain very much."




The growing argument about the merits of the digital revolution is the central issue of our age. It is the equivalent of the great debate about communism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The only matrix to make sense of our ideology chaos is to establish two camps -- digital versus analog. Then things appear less chaotic. Then they start making sense.