They weren't quaking. They needed to maximize shareholder value. Sony doesn't quake. In general, we ignored social reality, basing our networked cosmos on the intellectual meanderings of a certain kind of white male psyche. We thought that Metcalfe's law on networks and Moore's law on processor power would change everything .
Recession is over the horizon, apparently.
And yet all is not lost. First, I can publish this to thousands of readers worldwide. Second, the sources for solid leftist news have never been better. The fights against the WTO and the IMF would never have registered without this new technologies. Nader's campaign wouldn't have had the awareness it did.