Title: Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard Law School
Paris Hilton. I just don't get it. User-generated content, from YouTube to MySpace to blogs to Flickr to Wikipedia. I just would not have thought it would have happened on the scale and the speed it has. It has something that I have advocated and predicted for years, but the pace of its takeoff and the speed of adoption and use by so many segments has taken my breath away. This and other Web innovations have altered my time scale for predicting the speed and scope of future digital innovations. In short, the conditions are ripening for accelerated viral effects. There is a kind of exponential compounding effect of innovations that is going to make each day less and less like the day that preceded it.