TELLING DETROIT'S STORY - TAKING CHARGE OF OUR STORY: WHERE THE DETROIT REGION HAS BEEN, WHERE WE ARE AND WERE WE INTEND TO GO.

Kirk Cheyfitz: In 30,000 BC, he who could harness communication technology was the shaman, high priest or village headman. Communication was power. The printing press changed everything, making communication a two-way street.

Even the Internet, he says, was originally conceived of as a tool for elites – the military and academia. But then regular folks got ahold of it.

That begs the question, in my opinion – isn’t the Internet still a tool for elites? As in, you have to have access to a computer and Internet access to use it? Despite the best efforts of public libraries, Internet access is hardly ubiquitous. Though it certainly seems that way to those of us who have it.