The democratisation of information has empowered us all as individuals. We no longer have to take what business, the media or indeed politicians say at face value. Where once people waited to be told what the news was, they can now decide what news matters to them, and increasing numbers are actually commenting on events themselves – creating blogs every second of every day.
It is the first rule of the internet: people have a lot to say. They no longer want to be passive recipients of information. People want control over their media – not to be controlled by it.
Read the complete article by Google's Eric Schmidt for the Financial Times
