... heute ist Partizipationsgesellschaft! Jedenfalls wenn's nach Johnathan Schwartz geht, dem COO von Sun Microsystems:

The Participation Age leaves behind the network as a tool for the uninformed to access great databases in the sky (known as the Information Age), and drives toward a network in which individuals can participate. They can drive the dialog, drive economic opportunity, for themselves and their communities. They can educate, not simply be educated. Individuals can participate - leveraging a growing world of free services and technologies, from blogs to Java, wikis to a world of wonderful new services. Now, I've heard from a few stockholders saying, "What? Sharing? Free Software? What's up with that! Go make some money!" And so I thought I'd put down, once and for all, why we're committed to sharing, to open source, open standards, and eradicating the digital divide. Ready? Because we're going to make more money.

So einfach ist das! "The Participation Age": Schon wieder so ein leeres Buzzword?!