Also from that site you can listen to the audio or print the written transcript of Matt Drudge's address to the National Press Club in 1998. It provides good insight into the development of the Internet as a news vehicle. The absence of the time and space restrictions that limit traditional media allow for news providers on the Internet to make available far more news and cover stories in much greater depth than is possible with traditional media. Furthermore, the Internet allows interaction, so you can become part of each news story through your comments. You can be linked to actual sites involved in the news and many other related sites.
Authors can seek public input and involvement while in the process of writing books.
This revolution in communication and information is having a more profound effect on society than the industrial revolution. Research that once took years can now be done in hours - or less. Seemingly unsolvable problems are becoming routine. Everyone has the capability to be a publisher, a broadcast network, a multimedia producer, or whatever they desire to be. Technology has empowered every man, woman, and child in the world to be able to fully express themselves.