The book, available to all, changed the authority of the Church. When people had direct access to the scriptures, they could eliminate the need for a middle man. Once more, technology changes the very way in which business is carried out and in which power is exercised. We are all experiencing the chaotic upheaval of another major shift, the so- called age of connectivity. We are becoming a networked society.
Digitization brings together many different kinds of data.
Voice, phone, TV signals, fax machines, satelite messages, are all a series of ones and zeros. It is possible to manipulate data and to move it because of the phenomenon of digitization. The tremendous developments in chip capacity and the drop in cost, quantified by Moore's Law, has made storage and manipulation possible. Connecting, world wide, cheaply, effectively, making space and time disappear. Wireless technology brings an even more dramatic aspect to the scene.