Iran, Twitter & the Global Village
My mother reminded me to call my dad on Sunday, As usual I told my dad that out of all my father’s he was my favorite. The obvious joke is that my dad is my only father, biological that is. American’s live a life of freedom and liberty because of a different group of Fathers who should also be recognized.
Any American defines themselves as supportive of ideals such as freedom, free speech, free religion, equality and the pursuit of happiness. The idea that any government would do anything other than serve the people for whom (not over whom) it governs, is unacceptable.
If not for the Internet, connecting with others around the world and seeing their acts of resistance under oppression would have been impossible. Restriction to information, whether from the inbound filter of our own media or the outbound filter of a controlled media in Iran, would prohibit the connectivity that the web provides.
Internet & mobile technologies that allow instantaneous information exchange such as Twitter, RSS, facebook, text messaging are creating global peer to peer communication grids.
These technologies are revolutionizing communication and achieving a new one world movement – which provides ‘we the people’ the opportunity to determine in which direction the global village will grow. Over time governments will be challenged towards better models of representation rather than ‘governization’. This is the predominant struggle of the 21st century.
This one world movement is not the same movement that governments are trying to achieve, but a movement of the world’s people toward a common consciousness and existence which will embrace the ideas of fulfillment, love, kindness, organization, achievement, responsibility, honesty, transparency, equality, justice, freedom & liberty.
How will we be governed – assuming that it is our decision to make? How will the systems of the future be developed and who will be developing them? With what motives will it be developed and for whom will it have in mind? What new technologies will emerge and which governments will embrace them the fastest?
Finance
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Obama Appoints Federal Reserve to Govern Financial Systems |
Ron Paul on Federal Reserve |
Who Will Own the System? Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM - Council on Foreign Relations
History of the US Financial System |
AIG Explained |
Internet
Who Will Govern the Web?
Kevin Kelly on Web 3.0
Energy
Who will Govern Energy?
National Smart Grid Susceptible to Hacking
Information
Who will Govern Information?
Congressman Rockefeller on Cyber security Threat Need for Government Control of Internet. “The Internet Should Never Have Been Invented”
Media
How will we maintain and re-establish the Freedom of the Press?
JFK on the relationship between the free press and individual freedoms.
The Global Village
How will we govern?
