Comments on: The Revolution Has Just Begun http://www.mideastyouth.com/2010/02/20/the-revolution-has-just-begun/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: pritesh http://www.mideastyouth.com/2010/02/20/the-revolution-has-just-begun/#comment-24882 pritesh Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:45:47 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=6836#comment-24882 thanks for giving me idea on this topic thanks for giving me idea on this topic

]]> By: Steven http://www.mideastyouth.com/2010/02/20/the-revolution-has-just-begun/#comment-24881 Steven Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:54:53 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=6836#comment-24881 The text is hyperlinked right back to the author. The whole book is online. My own recent blog entry doesn't directly address your question but it does relate. See "A Tiny Weird Group in Your Backyard". You will see some of the implications of the internet attempting to address the matter of freedom. The text is hyperlinked right back to the author. The whole book is online.

My own recent blog entry doesn’t directly address your question but it does relate. See “A Tiny Weird Group in Your Backyard”. You will see some of the implications of the internet attempting to address the matter of freedom.

]]> By: Active Audience http://www.mideastyouth.com/2010/02/20/the-revolution-has-just-begun/#comment-24880 Active Audience Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:53:00 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=6836#comment-24880 I was grabbed by the title of the article because I am doing a paper on the "internet, freedom and democracy in the Middle East". I was hoping that the writer was going to tell us what effects the internet is having in his country. Sadly, it was not the case. I agree with Steven there. Incidentally, Steven, thanks for the quote. Do you know who is it by please? I was grabbed by the title of the article because I am doing a paper on the “internet, freedom and democracy in the Middle East”. I was hoping that the writer was going to tell us what effects the internet is having in his country. Sadly, it was not the case.

I agree with Steven there. Incidentally, Steven, thanks for the quote. Do you know who is it by please?

]]> By: Steven http://www.mideastyouth.com/2010/02/20/the-revolution-has-just-begun/#comment-24879 Steven Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/?p=6836#comment-24879 The idea that technology will reach a point of replacing us is a common theme in scifi. But this isn't necessary or inevitable. What is necessary and inevitable is that humanity will progress. Indeed as evidenced by tweeting and blogging and online social networks, there is something of a <a href="http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/WOB/wob-56.html.utf8?#gr3" rel="nofollow">"mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvellous swiftness and perfect regularity"</a> predicted in 1936 as one of many that suggest humanity has a bright future. Not to sound too idealistic but the future isn't necessarily dystopian. The idea that technology will reach a point of replacing us is a common theme in scifi. But this isn’t necessary or inevitable. What is necessary and inevitable is that humanity will progress. Indeed as evidenced by tweeting and blogging and online social networks, there is something of a “mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvellous swiftness and perfect regularity” predicted in 1936 as one of many that suggest humanity has a bright future. Not to sound too idealistic but the future isn’t necessarily dystopian.

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