The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.