> For all of Ahmad's impressive sloganeering (and, believe me, I
> am impressed and would willingly submit to such a future) let's be
> honest and admit that such a wondrous future will be available to
> only a tiny proportion of the global population. The remainder will
> be as happy as they have always been to be fed an inherently bland
> (though superficially enticing) diet of pablum.
This may very well be true. You are missing the point.
The point is: that those couch potatoes will have their diet
delivered differently. Their influence, if ever they had any (which
I think that suggesting they never had any is patronising in the
extreme) will be exerted differently.
It was couch potatoes who tore down the Berlin Wall and conducted the
Velvet Revolution. It was couch potatoes who topples Shah Rida
Bahlavi, it was couch potatoes who fought the American War of
Independence, and on and on.
The point is: the Networked Individual will bypass structured and
institutionalised (and cliquie) access to information, its flavour
and eventually, its use.
The point is: the Plow and Factory Revolution did, and in a major
way, affect the lives of millions of people. To the better or worse
is not the point. The point is that it did happen.
Now, are you going to sit and watch or are you going to try to
understand and adapt?
Either way, I have no problems man!
Ahmad
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Ahmad Risk MB BCh
Gestation: Medical NetNoire
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