The Future: A Vision

[queerbychoice]

I was thinking today: if only the people of Afghanistan weren't so oppressed, if only they were rich and privileged enough to all have internet access, then lots of Americans would have close friends in Afghanistan and then we'd never dream of bombing them.

Maybe someday, everyone in the world will have internet access, and then war will cease to exist.

Actually, I think our notion of community will just change entirely. People will no longer think of themselves as being from some geographically organized government (government itself will, I think, become ever less geographically divided) but instead as being from gay.com versus freerepublic or something like that.

Don't get me wrong: there'll still be just as much hostility as ever. But wars will have to be fought through hacking instead of bombing, because the people we hate won't correlate with any geographic regions anymore.

Comments

[ex-any814.livejournal.com]

yeah.. it really changes ones point of view when you actually know people from this or that country.
i wish no-one dreamed of bombing anyones country at all....

[(Anonymous)]

a large portion of the U.S. (and E.U. countries) have had access to the internet (in schools, especially, and even in urban public schools)--yet nationalist fervor dies hard. part of it has to do with the language barriers that still exist on the internet (how often do you look at chinese/german/kenyan websites?)

someone must invent the universal translator?