Internet Revolution

Cell Phone Revolution

This case is quite the interesting one. Apparently some girl had lost her phone in a taxi in NYC. The culprit who had taken the phone out of the taxi had refused to give the phone back after being tracked down. Then the victim publicized her plight on the interweb and received enormous feedback and assistance in pressuring the authorities in NYC to hunt down the phone and assist our victim.

The author of this article makes some interesting (and extravagant) points: "The Internet will transform the world everywhere groups of people come together to accomplish something, which is everywhere." In short this is describing the revolutionary power that the Internet has in response to this case and many potential cases in the future. The author claims that this case shows that people can unintentionally form groups and "organizations" when there is no obvious intention to form these groups. When people come together in this way: across cultures and countries, it is truly a defining moment for the technology that grounded these mass movements. The InterWeb.

"The argument I'm making is that the Internet isn't a decoration to contemporary society -- it's a challenge to it. " This statement is certainly concrete reinforcement for the power of our technology, our global relationships stemming from said technology.