Renaissance VC Fred Wilson thinks we’re living in a pseudo-modern – although he prefers the term ‘participativist’ – era. Even the news can’t escape!

Pseudo-modernism also encompasses contemporary news programmes, whose content increasingly consists of emails or text messages sent in commenting on the news items. The terminology of ‘interactivity’ is equally inappropriate here, since there is no exchange: instead, the viewer or listener enters – writes a segment of the programme – then departs, returning to a passive role.