information is now commoditized with no special knowledge needed to diseminate same. Gronk now has the ability to serve up the same stuff as Nook by simply getting a comms line and pricing his access a frog hair lower.
People still dont realize this so a ton of cash and profits can still be made by certain people but the wave is over.
Next wave is consolidation of decentralization. The ability to deliver just in time grenades, fresh milk porn, cornflakes and rebar with no advance notice, timely and priced cheaper than the next guy is where the serious cash will be. Ebay is an early form of this.
The new guy will be like taipans and traders of old with the advantage of airconditioning and subcontracting violence, strikes and elimination of rivals. The arms market is also a forerunner of this. It used to be practiced by semi legit guys selling to papered neer do wells, now with the profusion of rogue states with no dicernable big anti US dogs to carefully balance power it is all up for grabs.Russia recognises this and Putin is doing well acting as a proxy for the old USSR.
thanx,
bill