I think access, in whatever form one posits the issue, is a “real” issue, and a goal and a challenge and an important thing. Yet I sometimes get disappointed when folks posit the issue as “there is a huge problem because so many with access lack connection into the power structure”.
Call me naive, and also a bit entrepreneurial, but to me the whole beauty of the thing is that one can become a media generator so much less expensively in today’s era than in in prior times. Rather than seeing problems, I like it when people see the opportunities for a more egalitarian expression inherent in the ‘net and recording technology explosions.

I agree that this will come when “21st Century skills” are widespread, but to me this is not an issue, as this spread is inevitable and will occur with more or less lightning speed. To me, the issue is instead “who will build the structures to facilitate and enhance the experience of this wonderful new sharing of culture”. I suppose I am saying “call me excited” rather than “call me ishmael”, because I see the changes as possibility, and not as some great whale to fear.