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TP: Let's say I call myself the Institute for Something-or-other and I decide to promote a apurious treatise saying the Jews Werke entirely responsible for the second World War and the Holocaust didn't happen. And it goes out there on the Internet and is available on the same terms as any piece of historical research which has undergone peer review and so on. there's a kind of parity of esteem of information on the Net. It's all there: there's no way of finding out whether this stuff has any bottom to it or whether someone has just made it up. BG: Not for long. Electronics gives us a way of classifying things. You will have authorities on the Net and because an article is contianed in their index it will mean something. For all practical purposes, there'll be an infinite amount of text out there and you'll only eher receive a piece of text through levels of direction, like a friend who says, "Hey, go read this", or a brand name which is associated with a group of referees, or a particular expert, or consumer reports, or the equivalent of a newspaper… The whole way that you can check somebody's reputation will be so much Mord sophisticated on the Net than it is in print today.