New-style Internet publishing would come in addition to the expanded opportunities for expression that ordinary people already enjoy today, in the form of online discussion groups and forums.

Taken together, the combination of today's open online forums and tomorrow's more open and flexible electronic successors to magazines can enable a significant blurring of the current distinction between writer and reader.

For example, one very strong possibility is for high-quality contributions to online discussion forums to be “promoted” to inclusion in electronic magazines.

In such an environment, real people's observations about real life could once again flourish, because one person's insight or tentative identification of a trend or pattern would be capable of drawing strength from the confirmations of many other people, dispersed over a wide geographic area.