Internet killed Karl Rove Politics.

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In other words, Web meets world and changes everything.

"In the financially flush days of 2005, Elon Musk's involvement in companies aiming to reinvent electric cars, solar energy, and space travel might have been dismissed as overambitious or indulgent dalliances. At the Web 2.0 Summit on Friday, he looked like just what America needs right now -- a bright engineer betting big on new technology."

That's not just because of the election this week of Barack Obama, whose commitment to promote investments in green technology has heartened entrepreneurs at a time of dwindling credit. It has at least as much to do with the evolution of Web 2.0 as a concept.

Web 2.0 used to be about connection at a technical level; now it has more to do with connection at a social level and at a political level. The theme of the conference this year expresses this evolution perfectly: "Web Meets World."

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Y'no, we told ya so!!

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It is great to see that the internet is now becoming a force in the world other then as a form of entertainment or crazy fads.

Which is something I've always hoped for, I'd like to believe that the ideal of something like a BBS like NG, or a chat can wind up educating us a little bit more about the world and it will make the world smaller. Which is good because I think the more of us who feel like those of other nations are our neighbors the better.

Whether your happy with the way things went down tuesday or not, it is a powerful statement for what we, the internet generation can do when we get together and decide to do something. Interesting times ahead.