Introduction

The internet, smart phones and social media are technologies that may prove very unfavorable to those who wish to place us in the chains of a technicrotic talitarianism. It is said that politics is downstream from culture, but one could also say that culture is downstream from technology. Technological innovations by creating new possibilities for how we interact with the world, change culture. Of all the technological revolutions that engender utural change, changes in communication technologies are among the most impactful. For these technologies sculped the flow of information. And information is power.