I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public's eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology.
Cory Doctorow covering so many excellent points in this post.
(Obviously one day I will buy one of these and am excited about some of the possibilities. But I just don't think it is the second coming and am really tired of bad ahistorical writing and breathless hyperbole from people covering media industries for whom the "web" is only a partial cause of their current business problems)