These Times We Live In
Feb. 10th, 2008 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rubahStu just linked me this: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23189665-5006301,00.html
After years of watching internet movements swell with desire and hope and then fade away because of inability to do anything in the real world whether tethered by age and personal freedom or funds and money, it is frankly amazing that a group on-line can make a real showing in the world at large, regardless of what group that is and what showing they're making.
We have a volitile medium in our hands, guys, and it's taken some time for people outside our electronic world to realize that; we need to make sure that it doesn't get taken away from us (who could do the taking?). to return to localized independent movements would be about as tolerable as having your driver's license stripped or your library card taken away.
We just must also make sure we are making real world differences for the improvement of everyone, or to the detriment of no-one, else why should we deserve the internet, with its power?
After years of watching internet movements swell with desire and hope and then fade away because of inability to do anything in the real world whether tethered by age and personal freedom or funds and money, it is frankly amazing that a group on-line can make a real showing in the world at large, regardless of what group that is and what showing they're making.
We have a volitile medium in our hands, guys, and it's taken some time for people outside our electronic world to realize that; we need to make sure that it doesn't get taken away from us (who could do the taking?). to return to localized independent movements would be about as tolerable as having your driver's license stripped or your library card taken away.
We just must also make sure we are making real world differences for the improvement of everyone, or to the detriment of no-one, else why should we deserve the internet, with its power?
