Sunday, December 17, 2006

"You" Are The Time Person Of The Year !

"Who was the Time - Person of the Year in the year 1982?"
In my college days, this was a common question in all the quiz competitions I attended.
Hey don't tell me you don't know the answer. Ok lemme tell you the right answer - It was "The Computer".

List of all Time - Person of the year ( 1927 - 2005 )

But this post is to report the announcement of Time's Person of Year 2006.
Its "You". Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.
2006 is considered the year of "People-generated content". The credit goes to Web 2.0 sites like youtube, myspace, etc.

Excerpt from Time
But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

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