I have been a huge fan of the internet since it's arrival on the scene.
Even having to have put up with the numbing snails pace of dial up, I
saw the internet as a way of connecting to the rest of the world, far
faster than anything else I'd experienced before.
I remember
sitting in front of my huge-really huge-monitor, typing away in the
nascent chat rooms of AOL and thinking, wow, I am communicating with
someone from Singapore, who happened to be up really late I guess, and
someone from a European country I can't recall and saying "will you look
at this, it just cannot get any better." Today we are teleconferencing
across the globe, corporate news reporters and citizen reporters alike
are chiming in via Skype and other applications, sharing with the rest
of us both the tyrannical abuses of a countries government, and the
mobilization of citizens taking a stand.
In short, I am hopeful
of the powers that lay within the network of the internet and the spread
of cellular communications technology would be the next big equalizer
in the system of checks and balances between the people and our
governments.
