How Berlin In 1989 Is Like The Media Business In 2009

The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month taught me firsthand why revolution is simultaneously impossible as well as inevitable. In 1986, I sat with other students from around the globe just blocks from the wall and debated whether it would ever come down. The naïve among us insisted freedom was imperative: It was inevitable. The others asked if we had stopped to think about the massive relocation of people, economic resources, and government structures that such a revolution would require: It was impossible.

Until it happened, just three years later.

Such is the content industry

This article originally appeared in Forrester Research.

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