REVOLUTION
The noun REVOLUTION has 3 senses
1.a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
2.the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
3. a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
The seat of power lies where the monopoly of physical resources is. This, as our world history could attest, has made those nations falling short of expertise, knowledge and wealth become easy target for colonization at least some hundred years back. The tyrants dictate while the powerless follows. The quest for liberty and equal opportunity even remains elusive for those who have revolted and regained their independence as a nation in the latter years.
Fast forward to this day and age when physical labor slowly becomes minimally important and knowledge creation becomes the source of value and wealth, we have communication technology to thank for the democratization of the world. The new media has made the communication of information more and more participatory in nature and gone are the days when knowledge and control were primarily in the hands of the few. The networking and interactive characteristics of communication technologies has transformed the receivers of information as content providers themselves, literally empowering them to highly influence both local and global governance, culture, media and trade.
In the light of shared and equal access to knowledge resource, communication technology provides platform for historical decolonization process -- giving power to communities and individuals in the overall context of global human, economic, environmental and culturally negotiated spheres. Indeed, the communication technology in its present form deserves to be called revolutionary as it paves way for the shift of power – from the dynamics of powerful versus powerless to a shared universe that is healthy, beneficial and equal footing regardless of class and race.
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