Procedures for the transfer of information are shifting from contacts with the individual to easy contacts with the community.
Meanings go along with identity.
Information technology is amazingly smaller, faster and better as applied to transaction processing, but knowledge is outrunning our ability to use it. We are losing ground on extracting meanings from data. Con text is important what is carried along with the text to identify the author's background, meanings of words and subjective elements of reputation. When the original context leads to other ends, anonymity in the Web allows information entered into the system to change meanings at will. Like on election night, a deluge of changing data in a shifting context becomes uninterpretable.