The distance between other countries and cultures is growing smaller and smaller every second. Abilities to travel great distances in a matter of hours has connected countries over the decades. Even faster than that we have worldwide communication connections right at our fingertips. Modern technology and networking today allows us to better connect with one another via face-to-face conversations, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, text, instant messages, email, and the ever prehistoric practice of phone calls.
The ability to quickly access information has progressed us as bi pods. In a single generation technology has not just leaped into a new arena, it's constantly materializes transcended technologies faster than we can buy it. This ability to constantly express our every thought no matter how substandard or exceptional it may be has allowed us to progressed and at the very same time hinder us.
That's just basic physics folks. For every reaction, thought, idea, and movement there is an opposite counterpart. Humans have come very far. Not as far as Marty McFly did in 2015, but the technology is there. Hover boards are real people!! With this progression we have connected as countries and we have also disconnected from countries. Allies have been formed as well as enemies. Even 2nd and 3rd world countries have cellphones while still barely are able to get drinkable water.
With this there is a way to come together, and I'm not talking about the way The Beatles were talking. I'm talking about when our nation was attacked in 2001 and every single American set aside their political affiliations and stood by each other. When attacks happen in other countries like London and recently in Paris, social media allowed us to know what was happening outside of our comfortable little lives and realize there are bigger things going on. Information can be spread with one click of the finger. Though what happened in Nigeria wasn't as publicized as what happened in Paris, it was shared and publicized thanks to social networking. Now the audience can be the journalists as well.
It can, if utilized properly do vastly greater things than negative.
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