Steven Baker

I'm passionate about the internet's role as an absolutely revolutionary force of change with respect to how we view the world.

Those sound like lofty words, so let's work with an example or two:

Just ten years ago, if you wanted to be famous, you needed a prime time show. Now, all you need is a $20 webcam.

Fifteen years ago, if you wanted to have your voice heard around the world, it was -- for all intents and purposes -- impossible. Today, you can get a blog going at Wordpress in 30 seconds and, instantly, you have global reach.

The ability for information to flow bottom-up now, instead of just top-down, completely changes news, politics, and world events going forward.

Perhaps most interesting of all is how it changes business.

The technical means now exist for web companies, in particular, to allow their most avid users to add massive value directly *back* into the product. That's fascinating to me and it's never been possible in this way before.

All in all, it's a *really* neat time to be alive....