Here is a brilliant video and graphic reflection on the transformative affects of Facebook on the contemporary world, courtesy of Soshable. The picture alone demonstrates the unifying forces unleashed by the internet.
This brings to mind the following passage from Century of Light:
“The information revolution set off in the closing decade of the century by the invention of the World Wide Web transformed irreversibly much of human activity…Internet communication, which has the ability to transmit in seconds the entire contents of libraries that took centuries of study to amass, vastly enriches the intellectual life of anyone able to use it, as well as providing sophisticated training in a broad range of professional fields. The system, so prophetically foreseen sixty years ago by Shoghi Effendi, builds a sense of shared community among its users that is impatient of either geographic or cultural distances.”
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May 15, 2011 at 11:09 am
New Eras « Christopher Schwartz's Weblog
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