It's a valuable exercise. It can be painful to go thru the loops again, knowing how things are going to turn out, knowing that some claims will prove too bold. But there was some good writing, and there were some good ideas, and there's a direction that I lose at times. It's great to leave a trail, it gives me a way to review in one-year chunks, and consider all the points of view and decide which ones I want to take with me, and which ones I want to leave behind. 1998 was a year of new technology maturing, but there's still a spark of courage to try out new ideas.
Power struggles everywhere.
People fighting to be heard, to be free, to be rich, to swirl. But there are pockets of people working together, and as long as that's happening there's hope. Copyright 1997 Dave Winer.