open post 2

The power to be influential is unique on multiple grounds. The power to change history forever classifies an individual in another category. Gaining power can be a quick processes or can build in and of it self on a slow timescale. However when applying these same techniques to recognize power outside of humanity and into technology we can see the power of the internet emerging at a pace unheard of before present day. The internet has in fact been the most powerful technological invention of modern day.

With the internet people are able to collaborate in a variety of ways. Using social bookmarking sites such as Delicious or Diigo it seems that those who have the most readers are in fact the most powerful. A common characteristic of a power position is often the spread of a message. A message that will change the way people feel, think, act and operate. The internet has allowed messages to be transferred around the world a million times faster than old times when a telegraph was the only alternative.

Web 2.0 has created a powerful wave which is taking over life as we know it. Everything has been affected by the web in a variety of ways. People don't go on dates until they read their profile online, you can select your groceries and have them delivered, and malls have been replaced by online shopping. Society is becoming more and more powerful as people have to work less frequent to satisfy their needs, Is it a good thing?

The key feature which really sets the internet apart as the most powerful technological advancement of the last two decades is the information. As great scholars such as Richard Dekmejian point out, power is where the center of knowledge. The web has allowed for information to move across the planet with lightening speed. Any kind of information is available to an individual who wants to obtain it. People have become smarter do to the internet and it has transformed the world forever. Imagine life without the power of the internet?

TANK :)