Synchronicity?

Just been reading about Richard Branson's latest move, the Virgin/NTL "merger":

A deal between Virgin Mobile and US-listed NTL would radically shake up Britain's media landscape, as operators move to offer their customers a full range of TV, entertainment and telecom services.

Then I opened up Rheingold's Virtual Community where I'd left off, & immediately read his 1993 comments about Prodigy in its pre-Internet incarnation, as:

a preview of what could happen if a small number of large companies manages to dominate a global telecommunications industry that is now a competitive market of small and medium-size businesses that manage to survive and thrive along with the giants (...) The prospect of the technical capabilities of a near-ubiquitous high-bandwidth Net in the hands of a small number of commercial interests has dire political implications.

I'll pursue that another time (the chapter is stuffed full of high level sociological ideas, from Habermas to hyper-reality) but I went off for tea pondering the coincidence. I usually steer clear of the business news (some sacrifices have to be made in the face of impending information-overload-induced insanity!). Maybe I should be taking more notice.