Wake me when one of these stories has something interesting or actionable to say. Obama or not, China or not, Web 2.0 or not, people have been writing this exact same story since 1994.
Cory Doctorow's "Overclocked" has a great little story in it called "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" that always comes to mind when I read headlines like this:<p><a href="http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html" rel="nofollow">http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...</a>
Plus, when are we going to start to hear the horror stories of nuclear subs cutting cables (again)? If we start to have combat patrols guarding the inter continental cabling...