Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Person of the Year
I'm finally getting around to reading some magazines, and came across Time Magazine's Person of the Year issue for 2006 (ok, I'm a little backlogged). Anyway, Time's person of the year for 2006 was YOU! It basically offers the premise that the most important mover and shaker for the year in history was people like you through your blogging, facebooking, and youtubing type activities.
One of the intro articles (by Lev Grossman) starts...
The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.
and goes on to give examples, and then ends with this line that I find particularly inspiring:
But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person.
Full article: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
Committed as I am to helping others change their lives and the lives of others, I'm always inspired by just how much power now exists in the average person's hands, and at their fingertips via the Internet. As I continue to work on projects like the New Saipan, the WeLoveSaipan network, the Great Sheep Uprising, and others, they're all made more viable, productive and successful by use of the web. I'll add more to this later, have to get back to reading the magazine....
One of the intro articles (by Lev Grossman) starts...
The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.
and goes on to give examples, and then ends with this line that I find particularly inspiring:
But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person.
Full article: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
Committed as I am to helping others change their lives and the lives of others, I'm always inspired by just how much power now exists in the average person's hands, and at their fingertips via the Internet. As I continue to work on projects like the New Saipan, the WeLoveSaipan network, the Great Sheep Uprising, and others, they're all made more viable, productive and successful by use of the web. I'll add more to this later, have to get back to reading the magazine....
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