Losing Control

   

The powers that be are losing control.

1. You now have a chance to have a free voice – blogs, twitter, facebook. Take your pick. People are listening.
2. Doing you own thing is getting easier and easier.
3. People are slowly trusting social media more than they trust organisations.
4. People are shifting to the internet for news rather than the newspaper.
5. Corruption isn’t as rampant as it was, with computerised systems in place.
6. People are looking into how voting systems can move online. It has its disadvantages, but it can get the urban vote, and reduce ‘forced’ voting.
7. Word-of-mouth is a clear winner. Case in point, Google.

So many fail to notice how technology is truly changing the world. How the internet continues to revolutionise the way things work.

Technology is slowly making sure that control no longer remains with the few. Monopolies are dying. Sure, many countries (primarily in the Gulf region) are doing their best to hold on, but the game is too massive for anyone to get a hold of.

I’m not excited about technology. I’m excited about what it represents for all of us.

The leaderless future.

The few who get agitated, can do nothing, because the internet has no head to cut off, and no person to sue.

Like anything else, this has its downsides. But let’s look at the past - It’s worked out for the better.

I know, India (where I am) has a good journey ahead to get there, and we have more than enough problems.

But we ARE getting there. In time. 

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