These days everyone talks about how the internet has revolutionized our world and it's true. We can shop online, trace our ancestry online, play games with one another, and most of us couldn't go a day without checking our Facebook. However, the internet is changing our world in an even bigger way. In some of my recent posts I've discussed the hacker group Anonymous as well as protest efforts across the Internet to stop SOPA and PIPA. The Arab Spring would likely also have been a topic of discussion if my blog had been up at the time. More and more, however, the internet is not only effecting trivial things in our lives like shopping, and playing games but real concrete issues that affect our daily lives. Over the spring sites like Twitter helped to organize people as well as get the message out around the world what was happening in the middle east. Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry devices helped to organize protest and looting throughout England. Through an organized protest over the internet American sites stopped the draconian legislation SOPA. It doesn't just stop there the rise of the internet and the tech age has helped to usher in the concept of geeks actually being cool and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook even highlighted in his companies IPO how "There's a hacker mantra that you'll hear a lot around Facebook." Many people have said that this year 2012 marks the end of the world but I think this just may be the beginning, a changing of the guard where past tyrannies are cast down and a new more just world is rebuilt and I believe the internet has and is going to have a big hand in that.
