Its hard not to get caught up in the giddy elation of tech-purists at how Twitter and Facebook are empowering Iranians to fight back against voter fraud and their conservative, repressive regime.  I sit there gaping at the videos on YouTube, watching protestors throwing tear gas canisters back at riot police…and I cant help but wonder what the world is going to look like in 20 years.  Already the past five have brought YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the very tools that are reshaping politics around the world.  If this is what accelerated technology is bringing us, I cannot imagine what’s next.

Will information truly be free flowing? Will this be a democratic utopia, where everyone’s voice is heard and we are all equal under the machine? What happens when we become the machines?  What happens if Woody Allen’s Sleeper comes true (LOVE that movie by the way)?

These are excellent questions that can be debated all night.  It is important that we all consider our own relation and interaction with technology however, for day-by-day it gets easier to become the ghost in the machine.