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Social Revolutions in the Digital Age
Revolutions are slow and quiet. Until they aren’t. Nor do they have to be violent. There are social and cultural revolutions, political and economic. Technologies have long played a role in societal revolutions. But what about now? It’s different.
I’m pulling together, and summarizing a whole lot of ideas, theories and hypotheses into a rather short essay here.
We’re in a period of significant societal change right now. Shifting geopolitical alignments based on values systems, rising economic inequality, increasing conflicts and regional wars, political systems and the means of social governance. Social revolutions are bubbling beneath the surface, occasionally flaring up. what does this mean in the opening phases of the Digital Age we are entering?
It’s important to look at because it helps us to understand some of the issues happening in our changing world. And while our world is constantly changing, there are some periods that see more change happening at once than at others. Such as now.
One might think that weapons are the primary technology of revolutions. Sometimes, but not very often. The most important technologies that enable, support and influence revolutions are information technologies.
If you want to create a revolution and change the way a society works, or make…
