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Here Comes Everyone In the 1990s the personal computer revolution turned into the social computer revolution. The thrill of having sophisticated computer power on your desktop turned out to be just the beginning, once your machine could connect to everyone else's via telephone lines. There is a global computer the size of humanity taking shape. Now that everybody can publish their own interests to a world audience on the Net, we learn irreversibly that the …

…we had any idea how wildly interesting "vanity publishing" could be when it is cheap and plentiful, we would never have condemned it. Some call the Net "democratic." It is certainly empowering and political, but in a new sense. People are not using the net to vote on issues (though they may soon) or to elect representatives in a hierarchical power structure. They are using the Net to make things happen directly, personally, immediately. Emargo