But there are people who, half a century from now, will get credit for having figured out how to use the Internet to transform American public culture, on a scale of importance comparable to television. They will be the ones with the showmanship and the instinctive feel for the medium to have created material that could appear nowhere else and that lots of people love.
Nicholas Lemann (Tune in Yesterday, the New Yorker, April 30, 2007) (original link)
