"Every Home Is Wired": 4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

Amidst such optimistic views, however, it should finally not be forgotten that by far not all of humanity is part of this new community yet: most importantly, there is still a strong gender bias that is only now starting to subside. As we have already seen, "the Internet will hardly be in a position to overturn the dominance of television and traditional commercial media" (Herman & McChesney 123) in the short term, especially since it is a medium whose membership figures so far rank only in the tens or, at most, hundreds of millions world-wide -- while "the Internet has assumed the status of a digital promised land where all inequities and oppressions can be resolved and where minor, independent artists can potentially access a huge audience" (Hayward 36), access so far is severely limited. Many non-English-speaking, non-Western, or simply remote regions and individuals are still cut off, and even in Western countries we now see a widening gap between the information-rich and the information-poor -- those with access and those without it. It is easy to overlook these major limitations amidst the general Internet euphoria especially in the West; on the other hand, in the light of such setbacks it is also easily forgotten that the information-rich using the Net today are likely to be among those groups exercising major influence in Western societies and in the world in general tomorrow: for better or for worse, therefore, the Net will impact massively on the development of humankind in the information age.	Bit 19

Amidst such optimistic views, however, it should finally not be forgotten that by far not all of humanity is part of this new community yet: most importantly, there is still a strong gender bias that is only now starting to subside. As we have already seen, "the Internet will hardly be in a position to overturn the dominance of television and traditional commercial media" (Herman & McChesney 123) in the short term, especially since it is a medium whose membership figures so far rank only in the tens or, at most, hundreds of millions world-wide -- while "the Internet has assumed the status of a digital promised land where all inequities and oppressions can be resolved and where minor, independent artists can potentially access a huge audience" (Hayward 36), access so far is severely limited. Many non-English-speaking, non-Western, or simply remote regions and individuals are still cut off, and even in Western countries we now see a widening gap between the information-rich and the information-poor -- those with access and those without it. It is easy to overlook these major limitations amidst the general Internet euphoria especially in the West; on the other hand, in the light of such setbacks it is also easily forgotten that the information-rich using the Net today are likely to be among those groups exercising major influence in Western societies and in the world in general tomorrow: for better or for worse, therefore, the Net will impact massively on the development of humankind in the information age.

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