"Social media is a revolutionary force. We know that, but we're still catching up with its implications. A leader of the Egyptian revolt was a Google executive. Could the future be any clearer?
No takeable dictatorship will survive this era. The ones that do last will be so effectively totalitarian that their very brutishness will be their bulwark.
A Hollywood director once said that a great Western is defined by this dynamic: "The villain has arrived while the hero is evolving." Egypt itself is evolving. May its people be heroes and do great things."
~ Peggy Noonan, from the Wall Street Journal
I guess we're making progress unless the authorities shut down the internet.
ReplyDeleteThe keyboard is mightier than the gun!
ReplyDeleteI like this sign.
ReplyDeleteRevolution, baby!
Thing about Twitter and Facebook is that they're centralized so also easily blocked! Maybe tools like Diaspora will help here.
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