A Toast To Technology

I hold the unpopular opinion that technology - more specifically the proliferation of social media - is not intrinsically "good" in any sense. Social media is, however, important, and I propose we raise our glasses of good cheer to what social media and its related technologies have wrought around the world this past year and the good it will, in real terms, do in the future. The great lie of social technology is that propagandists fear it for its ability to connect us in unified opposition. This is untrue. A status update cannot rally a crowd in flux. There are far superior tools too do this in a protest environment, namely SMS and good old "shouting." Facebook is useless when soldiers are firing into your Google Plus circle. What social media does and has done is reduce the barriers between people and expose the lie that any one place is better than the other. It also shows us, in very real terms, that humans are humans wherever they are. This is what frightens dictators and false potentates the most: the great leveling of human experience.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3O3luUrqDbw/

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