Listening Ears

More than ever, we have an audience. I was inspired by hsmaggie's post"Yeah, but who is reading it all?" She relates a story of her husband's discontinued blogging for his trip because "no one was commenting on the blog, so he figured no one was reading it either". He was wrong, and it turns out our message can go a lot farther than we would expect.

As creating media became more available in the 15th and 16th centuries, standards for publication were lowered. Before the innovation of the printing press, the Bible was the only regularly reproduced publication. Contrast that extreme to the extreme we see today. Anyone can create media through a number of avenues that can be viewed by billions of people worldwide. It takes little more than typing and clicking abilities. The printing press began a revolution. I consider the computer as a continuation and enlargement of that same revolution. We are able to consume, create and connect ideas more easily than ever before, and history would tell us that it's only going to get easier(that is if we remain literate, digitally and otherwise). I'm seeing more and more that our ability to consume, create and connect with the world is the determining factor of success. Perhaps it always has been.