To me, this appears to be the democratisation of information (or bullshit, depending how you look at it) dissemination. In the past, only a select few told stor

To me, this appears to be the democratisation of information (or bullshit, depending how you look at it) dissemination. In the past, only a select few told stories to the masses. With each new invention (printing press, camera, internet, AI), more people gained the ability to share their ideas. Now we've reached a point where almost anyone can tell stories, even those who previously struggled to express themselves. Each time, we observe the same pattern: the established storytellers predict doom, fearing the loss of their privileged role. Once again, we're eliminating the middleman. We're approaching a state where peer-to-peer communication is once more possible (something we lost when we grew from tribes into nations and "the world"). This development is deeply unsettling to existing gatekeepers who have derived money and power from controlling the flow of information. And "information wants to be free" after all, so things like "licences" and "intellectual properties" are going to suffer too. And a reminder that the full quote from the 1960s (!) is this: "On the one hand you have—the point you’re making Woz—is that information sort of wants to be expensive because it is so valuable—the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the costs of getting it out is getting lower and lower all of the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other."