Welcome to the 45th issue of
SubTel Forum, our Subsea Technologies edition. I originally planned to write a piece about Twitter; though an interesting and fun technology, I could not get my head around how it could make money, how it was the ultimate in narcissistic excess -- blah, blah, blah and so on. That’s what I originally planned.
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But today I have a new comprehension of the power of Twitter and other ceiling-breaking social networks. It is truly an interesting world where we have arrived when news content can be derived from fragmented audios, videos and pictures from a simple cell
phone that has been then projected to the “outside”. This is made possible by the very infrastructure we build; the systems that allow and enhance the insatiable worldwide human conversation.
average to reflect directly on potentially world changing events. No more is one held hostage to news flow or cycles. The anarchy of information, unfiltered and un-glossed and unglorified, has arrived.
These new technologies are transforming not only the way we talk with one another, but also the way regions and continents disseminate and view and discern everyday information. Audacity and violence can now be analyzed on the individual level long before the world’s governments can offer timid or tepid retorts.
And then I, too, can yell from the rooftops.
While countries and companies consider their moral equivalents and responses, streaming images engage the