Is This a Side Effect of a More Deep Technological Revolution?

The video and audio on demand revolution is equivalent to a second gutenberg revolution. For the first time in human history, the spoken word has as much reach and permanence as the written word. So hurray for us. We're smarter than we think. You might think we're smarter than our technology had heretofore revealed to us. And we're hungrierfor high level discourse than we knew.