Change Will Find a Way, or The Revolution is Brought to You By...
Change is inevitable, be it the loss of a parent or people taking to the streets in Iran to protest their need for change. Some change is personal, some global. In the case of Iran what that change ultimately looks like is less important right now though some politicians will proselytize (this not to be confused with evangelize) their vision of what change should look like for others who have the real stake and more importantly responsibility for the implementation and nurturing of that change, I find this an odd and at times arrogant trait in people but perhaps, the predictable nature of man.
As I contemplate change and the news that Twitter, YouTube and other technologies are working hand in glove with people in Iran who want nothing more then the right of self-determination I find compelled once again to evangelize about the very technologies we often write and speak about with such casual affair.
...The song Drive, by Incubus "Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there" plays in the background and seems appropriate.
The mainstream media buried the lead as they so often do in their zeal for trying to contextualize and make sense of change, sometimes I long for a news reader and not someone emoting or spinning about this or that, but I digress. The players in Iran the U.S. and the rest of the world will all play their assigned roles, be it the people in the streets, the supreme leader, that countries figurehead, or a senator critical of how the U.S. administration is or is not reacting as he would like.
Aside from my wish for people everywhere to determine their own fates, The lead...be it Twitter or YouTube, (IP or iTV) is Change will find a way and we need to understand, embrace and cultivate that idea. This, all of this is stuff we do is based on IP, the very foundation that is the transport of information for change.
The story about these technologies and the part they play in the order of change, just like summing up a persons life does not end here it just begins...so Comrades, go forth into your day and remember for whatever tomorrow brings we"ll all be there...
For JH
