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Andy Lippman, Context, Sept 13, 2002

A number of good insights in this article, the essence of which is to warn people that the information revolution has not ended, but only begun. For example: "We are entering an era characterized by communications among distributed machines and dispersed people, rather than being mostly about a connection between two individuals or between an individual and a machine. The old approach to telephony was about 'connections to'; the next wave is about 'connections among.'" The old communications monopolies - telephony, publishing, music - will, one way or another, be changed. "No law can stop it. Laws function only when society tacitly agrees on their worth. If you doubt that, try driving 55 mph on the interstate."

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