Person of the Year: You - Revolutionizing Web 2.0

[Ivan Seeking]

Here is what I think about PF.

...But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution. [continued]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/16/time.you.tm/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

 

[Danger]

That's kinda cool.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This has received mixed reviews, but I think Time magazine made a great call. Borrowing from Alvin Toffler, we are all players in the third great wave of change in human history. And though no one really knows where this will all lead, I believe that the internet will fundamentally transform humanity for the better; that one day it might even put an end to war by making the world a community, one PF at a time.

Everyone who donates their time to helping others here at PF or at any forum, and everyone who contributes their sincere views to first global debate in history, and everyone who shares their life and culture with others on the web - helping to make the world a smaller place - should pat themselves on the back for helping to usher in the next great age of humanity.