I've been focusing a lot lately on the ways in which electronic media help us demonstrate, interactively, concepts that might be difficult to wrap our heads around. This blog has seemed, in the last few days, to be almost exclusively about demonstrating cosmic scales.
But another awesome thing—maybe the most awesome thing—about the advent of electronic media is the fact that it's democratized the creative process. Whether it's Youtube videos or Soundcloud audio distribution or podcasts available just about anywhere, everyone basically gets to have a voice these days. Anyone with access to a smartphone and a computer can basically create anything they want. Sure, it makes for a lot of dreck, but it also gives outlets to people who deserve it and might not otherwise be able to create and distribute their content.
Without the distribution available via the Internet, we wouldn't get to see awesome stuff like this:
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