Sometime in the near future, the bigger questions will have to be asked – about what kind of world we want to live in and how large a specter of corporate control we will allow to haunt our participation in the media culture that surrounds us. Can we seriously expect that today’s PC- and iPod-equipped generations will remain content to be treated as passive consumers of prepackaged media products, obediently forking over 99 cents for every song, every book chapter or every 10 minutes spent staring at a Hollywood blockbuster?
