In my 50 years and 57 countries
57 countries !?! Woah, that's mental, what's the longest you have stayed in one place?
Another great post, I feel the same sense of foreboding you did as I read those words. However to me, it seems that things are very different now, technology has changed us in more ways than scientific advancements and thinner TVs.
In my humble opinion, the invention of the internet, and now the rise and rise of the blockchain, has given a kind of power to the people that has never been seen before.
In times gone by, we just simply accepted war as an inevitable consequence of the human condition. Not so now, and in addition to that, the rhetoric fed to us about our enemies and our allies came from one or two official sources.
Nowadays a 16 year old kid can film a major incident happening, and within moments it will be on Twitter seen by perhaps millions. The nature of the war is changing, and I'm not quite sure yet how to feel about it.
I agree the advent of internet and the rize of blockchain is revolutional...
While the plethora of information flowing around us is good and we have managed to avoid the spoon-fed media, it's also equally confusing. Sometimes its difficult to decide which version and whose version is correct...@cryptogee....
@xabi,
I'm equally frustrated with the reliability of information sources. I don't have a solution.
The internet is the ocean. Now we just need to train the sailors better.
I am working on a class called 'how to use the internet'. Here in my rural, developing community, the internet has arrived, on cell phones, and people are happy! They are chatting and connecting and are very aware of facebook and whatsapp.
But it doesn't go much further than that. When they learn about wikipedia, coursera, edx and dozens of other tools and websites available online, they get really excited all over again. Of course everything on the internet needs to be parsed, interpreted and understood through the right filter based on where it comes from and who it is for.
Training and education is the solution.
@ecoinstant,
Great insight.
The Internet has the ability to dramatically impact developing countries. What would be incredible is if coursera, edx, etc. could figure out a way to grant "course credits" so that people could prove they possess the knowledge they claim. That way they could "capitalize" their knowledge.