Found this link to a great video on TeacherTube. Thought provoking statistics about the rate of change of technology and how the 'Internet Revolution' could change the current 'world order' just as dramatically as the industrial revolution did. The statistic that 25% of US kids have posted content online was interesting.

Marshall McLuhan wrote in the 1960's that the world was becoming a global village. He was refering to the development of the TV and radio and the way they could manipulate time, space and physical locations without necessarily being Dr Who.

I wonder what he would have made of the internet? He saw TV and radio as becoming potential tools of totalitarian thought and messages. A sort of '1984'. Unlike radio and TV which both need substantial investment in the methods of production (studios, transmitters, licences etc) and has access to programming controlled by a few the internet is essentially 'free to air'. With a low cost audio and video recorder anyone can become a content developer and online publisher.

(Thanks to JoAnn for the link to the video)