The Age of the Remix

I found this article from a link off of Slashdot. It's an article by the revered sci-fi author William Gibson in Wired magazine about regurgitation and recycling of ideas. It seems pretty abstract but he gets the point across clearly, I thought:

Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.