Mark Pesce has written a truly insightful piece of analysis over on his blog, The Human Network. In a moment of synchronicty, I found his article just after ranting about these same concepts: the democratization of content and broadcast and the tools of creation; the power of mobile communication and networked affinity groups; the decline of content monopolies with the rise of The Makers; the exponentially increasing visibility into the lives and events of our world; the empowerment of the individual and communities through social networks; the parabolic rise in clock-speed of iterative knowledge; the counterbalance of economic globalization with the rising cost and dissipating supply of industrial energy; and the relentless and unstoppable transparency of life.

From Mark’s article, Synopsis: Sharing :: Hyperconnectivity:

All of this sharing of media means that the media titans – the corporations which produce and broadcast most of the television we watch – have lost control over their own content. Anything broadcast anywhere, even just once, becomes available everywhere, almost instantaneously. While that’s a revolutionary development, it’s merely the tip of the iceberg. The audience now has the ability to share anything they like – whether produced by a media behemoth, or made by themselves. YouTube has allowed individuals (some talented, some less so) reach audiences numbering in hundreds of millions. The attention of the audience, increasingly focused on what the audience makes for itself, has been draining ratings away from broadcasters, a drain which accelerates every time someone posts something funny, or poignant, or instructive to YouTube.

…Our connectivity has grown into “hyperconnectivity”, and a single individual, with the right message, at the right time, can reach millions, almost instantaneously.

This simple, sudden, subtle change in culture has changed everything.

…Nothing is hidden anymore, no secret safe. We each possess a ‘nuclear option’ – the capability to go wide, instantaneously, bringing the hyperconnected attention of the Human Network to a single point.