Doc Searls on DTV and the New Localism

An interesting quote from Doc’s recent post at LinuxJournal, titled “What’s Next for Open Source and Public Media?”

“The end of analog terrestrial television will be a big mess and a wake-up call in more ways than we can name. The loss of analog TV’s familiar channels, and in countless cases their signals as well, will go beyond annoying millions of people who never asked for DTV, and will barely understand it. In the long run it will help break everybody free from the ancient model of broadcasting as a system defined by limits in time and distance. No longer will everything need to be ‘live’ — and constantly to hog bit paths to listeners and viewers who are tuned in to something else.”

Then he writes, “No longer will local be a strictly geographical concept.”