Good Quote from Charles Stross on Firedoglake

It's hard to forecast the future because it's so fluid, and there's so much more of it than there used to be!

We aren't a monoculture any more. Nor do we consume common mass entertainment media. We're appallingly diverse. And there are nearly seven billion of us, with more than a billion in the developed world and another 2-3 billion in countries that will be developed within a couple of decades (unless things go horribly wrong).

Consider recreational media. In the 19th century you had...