I really like the article in terms of how it can be related to what we are doing here: having a blog and act/write as bloggers. We are a small group indeed, but “such small number is common in participatory media.” We have similar interest (at least to some degree?) and exchange thoughts and opinions here. Each of us benefit from this blog by reading others’ posts and comments.
Having a personal/group blog is more common now than three or five years ago, and just as the reading suggested, maybe in five years, everyone is going to have a blog, just like everyone has (at least) an email account now. How many email accounts do you have? How many blogs do you have? Compare with what you had five years ago, what is the percentage of growth? So where does this technological development or growth take us to?
Of course I cannot foresee the future, but somehow I believe in the potential of mobile devices. Something similar to iPhone or GPhone. I do not mean mobile devices will replace our desktop or laptop computers (even though it is possible), but I think a great amount of people want to be connected, either by phone or by the Internet, or both. They might not want to talk to a real person all the time, but they want to be connected to the (cyber?) world more often, especially those who grew up with broadband Internet and their sidekicks.
Here's a blog post of the next Internet.
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