Reply #26: that is likely true [View All]

But, do you think Edison and Bell and the guy who invented the TV were all that popular during their respective times? I really think it takes hindsight to give societies perspective. Right now it feels like we're getting hit with info. left and right. It's hard to sort out what's going to wind up being most relevant. That's why I think journalists (the real ones--not the papparazi--but the Edward R. Murrow, Robert Fisk types) are so important as an institution. Fisk put it so well in an interview I heard on NPR recently: Journalists get to write the "first draft of history." And I, too, think we're on the verge of something big--that will change the course of history.