"[T]here are four trillion bits of information coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it's too much work for you to do triage to decide. So it's very clear, very soon there's gonna be an economic niche opening up for gatekeepers...Because otherwise we're gonna spend 95 percent of our time body-surfing through shit." I think that 10+ years of the Internet have shown that we don't care too much about body surfing through shit. And the gatekeepers seem to have passed completely. Although the New Yorker from which this quote was pulled suggests that AOL, of all things, has pretensions to change that. I place more faith in Apple, Amazon, and Rupert Murdoch, for good or for ill....