Beautiful words by Arnold Bennett! And your words are no less profound in meaning, @jacor! Thanks you!
I really enjoyed this article. And since I'm not familiar enough to this "netocracy" topic, I'll definitely read Cryptogee's post.
Indeed, reputation is increasingly gaining value. Because news travels faster than ever before. After all nowadays instead of pigeons there're fiber optic cables and satellites ;)
In other words, information moves faster and faster. So as soon as you say something, it spreads all over the world. And thus responsibility for the words becomes higher. Now every word everyone knows. And this is a good incentive to learn to live more responsibly and consciously.
@omfedor, this is truly an interesting subject, that I think we should all pursuit and learn more about. The world is getting smaller and smaller!