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Information expands in great waves which sweep over the human landscape and leave little untouched.  We stand at the earliest moment of what promises to be a cataclysmic  expansion of information and communication technologies:  the fifth wave. Much of the old dispensation still remains.  Because it has been useful to people in authority, it will die hard.  In Cuba, bloggers are beaten.  In Iran, Facebook and Twitter get shut down while regime thugs shoot protesters.  Violence and bloodshed will accompany the agony of top-down, I-speak-you-listen modes of information. The fourth wave, now nearly spent, was that of mass media.  Its organization was industrial, its orientation commercial or propagandistic, but its most radical innovation – the difference between what transpired before and after – was the demand for a silent public.  Whether print, radio, or TV, the mass media is always in broadcast mode, one voice speaking to many.  This has been true in the US no less than in North Kore

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