Yeah, amazing isn't it!

But we're seeing the evolution of media as we watch. Annoying or not, this is something to watch, because our kids (certainly our grandkids) will never really know or understand this thing we call "the media".

I'm not quite pessimistic enough to think they won't know about those things called "books", but they might laugh at the quaint concepts of a newspaper or magazine.

Or perhaps there won't be any filter. Perhaps the content generated by every random human on earth will be directly consumed by other random humans. Scary thought that - but possible.

Even in that dystopic future however, you can bet good money that some people will have figured out how to make money off the labor of others.

Right now that comes through ads on web pages, but this is (in my view) a transitional stage. Things like Silverlight and Atlas promise to make things different (probably worse) as time goes forward.