unit 1 the time 100 unit 2 the newsweek 50 unit 3 the world in 2009 unit 4 business and life unit 5 courtesy unit 6 japan unit 7 afghanistan unit 8 pakistan unit 9 india unit 10 hait5 unit 11 education unit 12 science and technology unit 13 health care and technology unit 14 globalization unit 15 production
but power in america and elsewhere is undergoing directional changes that -plicate millss argument. yes, there are still cultural arbiters, and yes, presidentsand lawmakers and executives obviously exert enormous influence. it is arguable,though, that technology has given us a more democratic culture （ if not politics） thanthe world has seen since perha the foun of athenian democracy. in ways thatwe are still only beginning to understand, the inter is changing how power is ac-cumulated and exercised. this is a subject that a1 gore——who knows a lot about the vicissitudes of for-tune——understands well. in gores thinking, we are now in the midst of a great turn-ing point in the history of power, a moment akin to the introduction of the printingpress in europe in the mid-15th century. the proliferation of printed informationhelped fuel the rise of democracy until, in gores view, television replaced print asthe central political medium. now the inter has, like gutenberg, lowered barriersto information and has given virtually anyone with something to say the means to sayit. the web is not only a source but a stage on which we can engage in the life ofthe nation and of the world armed with facts we have weighed in the light of reason.knowledge is now once again connected to power,says gore——and that is a kindof power which means all of us belong on a list like this. ……
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