303) Revolution 2.0

"Freedom is a bless that deserves fighting for it."

We've all just witnessed what social media can do for a revolution. To get around the restrictions of state-run traditional media, Egyptian protesters turned to Twitter, Facebook and Google's Speak2Tweet to organize and mobilize. Which begs the question - would the revolt have been a success sans social media?

So often when we think of social media, we think of frivolous socializing, leaving trivial quips for friends, posting pictures of what we're about to eat. We think a distraction at work, a time-suck. We think of being removed from real life by abbreviated social interactions. But the people of Egypt have just proved that social media can be so much more.

So, how else can we use social media to revolutionize? At its best, what can social media change? In other words, what's next?


(Taken at MoMA this morning.)