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dailyreckoning | Most people today use technologies without a clue to the larger
picture of what is really happening to the structure of the world
because of them. People are staring at the trees and not noticing the
gigantic, growing, and ever expanding forest, much less considering the
meaning of it all.
This is an attempt to provide a larger look, starting with one of the most beautiful images on the entire Web. It comes from Tweetping.net. This site lights up a tiny pixel for every public communication sent through Twitter.
What you see serves as a proxy for the growth of global communication
networks far more complex and voluminous than most people imagine. The reach extends far beyond that of any regime in the world. By comparison,
the control that government has over the planet, as egregious and
ghastly as it is, is miniscule.
This puts into perspective the $3 million that the Eurocrats are spending
to skew upcoming elections in favor of centralized solutions and put
down Euroskeptics. It cannot be done. Governments think they can control
this, but they can’t.
Twitter was born in 2006, but its present form was built by users
themselves. The developers made the infrastructure and let it happen. It
is not only about just telling your friends what you had for lunch. It
serves its users — each of whom has exactly as much power as any other —
as a portal to the entire digital universe.
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