I've been using the internet since the mid 90s, but it kind of just dawned on me tonight how simply amazing it is, and how it is completely transforming the way human beings interact, learn, and do things.
i mean, the social power of the internet is amazing. the idea that you can be part of a community, feel personal connections to people you haven't even met, and anywhere in the world, the level of potential international connectedness, to instantly be able to find exactly what information you want, to share your personal ideas to the world...
the implications this has for the little people of the world, the people who aren't in positions of power and control, to have a voice and make a different
...its all just astounding. and it had been happening under my nose while i just took it all for granted!
does anyone else think about the profound implications of the internet? I'm not crazy, am i?
2006-08-13
22:19:27
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