>>1254970Sure did. But the pendulum which has swung towards centralization for the last 150 years is now moving in the other direction, fast.
The medium is the message. People who used to think like newspapers and TV are starting to think like the Internet, and centralized power in an Internet world is slowly becoming literally unthinkable. It is no coincidence that as publishers and later studios used to broadcast over massive geographical areas from centralized locations, central governments became massively powerful. Now, decentralized power centers are the future, because as content sources are scattered everywhere in the Internet.
That's why the resurgence of libertarianism and its related ideologies started online and have been steadily becoming more mainstream, at the same time the Internet has steadily displaced the old, Hollywood/New York-centered media models.
We're the tip of the spear in an inevitable change in human consciousness, towards decentralization of power. It's happened before, with increasing speed, in the opposite direction, over the last century -- but the Internet moves a lot faster than the old media ever did.
