Today I watched the most amazing thing. So did millions of others. So please, enjoy this concoction of connectivity.

What is fascinating above all is witnessing this and thinking how YouTube not only is a platform for anyone to publish video, they’re also using it to publish their own content. Anyone could have pulled this off using YouTube.com, but it came from them directly. I see this and can’t stop thinking that it is no surprise ABC, NBC, and their brethren are worried about this. Such is technology, we build these great companies but time forces changes and they all have their life spans. Someday YouTube will be replaced by something better, but right now no one is really pouncing all over social media like them.

The Internet has provided mankind with a cave made out of whiteboard material. We can draw on it, sing inside it, argue with each other on it, do all the same things our ancestors did drawing in their caves. Only difference is this new cave is malleable, it craves diversity like a hole that can’t be filled. It mixes all this soup together to become a completely new culture, and in some crazy way we see music resonate from all points of the globe delivering the first orchestra where few of its members shared the same room. Our greatest composers even fifty years before now couldn’t even conceptualize such a notion.

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