Warren Ellis —

At some point, we realise all our little hopes and dreams for the web are pointless because it’s all out of our hands. And yet we can’t shake those dreams off, because it seems to us like the culture is so busted that the only way to connect it up is through the open web. Because the open web is open access and some form of the web pervades most of our lives now.

Sadly, the web we have is the mediocre network-tv version.

But this is where we all were forty-odd years ago with relation to the previous generations of dominant media. We lived inside broadcast television and print culture that we had no control over. So we got zine culture and tape culture and even a pirate radio revival.

People in the US in the Sixties used to talk about going out to “find America.” Now I see people doing their damnedest to find the web.