Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

http://www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

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[agentskalle]

When did Tom Hanks shave his head? He wears glasses too? :)

Interesting talk though..

[beebobox]

saying that the amount of people are approaching the amount of neurons in the brain is like saying - the amount of water you drink is approaching the amount of water in the atlantic ocean.

the number may be rising but it's nowhere close to being the same, atm the world pop is closing in on 7 billion, and the neurons in the brain are about 100 billion.

the population will grow faster then the human brain will get bigger.

so approaching ?

yes

a good comparison?

no

[Contrajoe]

According to PopClocks, we passed 7 billion some time ago. We're at 7.086 billion. :|

[MrMitch361]

Very Interesting!

[Jason Morcombe]

Great talk!! What!!? No stand "o" ??

[CIPHERJAY]

He says 'right?' alot.

[BrixSnBs]

He was'nt commenting on the political idealism regarding the bill, it was about the fact that the critique was dealt with through communication rather than censorship as we saw it in China.

[ozzy samper]

OMG I thought the same thing :O very cool how two or more people can have the same thought xD

[Hidden Yarn]

I wonder how you learned about proxies and how to use them. You never would have checked the internet, by chance?

[wesley0a]

So Obama gave those with the same ideals as him a big "FU" and he supports that? Come on!

[Zaxomio]

you know you can get around the so called great fire wall of china by using a proxy. If you are the least bit internet experienced its not that great. It only stops people with less internet experience.