The Future: six drivers of global change

Chapter 39

124 actually represented a tiny fraction of Egypt's huge population

Noah Shachtman, "How Many People Are in Tahrir Square? Here's How to Tell," Wired Danger Room blog, February 1, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/how-many-people-are-in-tahrir-square-heres-how-to-tell/.

125 new political consensus around what kind of government

David D. Kirkpatrick, "Named Egypt's Winner, Islamist Makes History," New York Times, June 25, 2012.

126 from those advocated by most of the Internet-inspired reformers

Ibid.

127 when the Ottoman Empire banned the printing press

Fatmagul Demirel, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters (New York: Facts on File, 2009), p. 130.

128 they had deprived themselves of the fruits of the Print Revolution

Ishtiaq Hussain, "The Tanzimat: Secular Reforms in the Ottoman Empire," Faith Matters, February 5, 2011, http://faith-matters.org/images/stories/fm-publications/the-tanzimat-final-web.pdf.

129 depending on how they are used and who uses them to greatest effect

Evgeny Morozov, "The Dark Side of Internet for Egyptian and Tunisian Protesters," Globe and Mail, January 28, 2011; Louis Klaveras, "The Coming Twivolutions? Social Media in the Recent Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt," Huffington Post, January 31, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/post_1647_b_815749.html.

130 have even experimented with Internet voting

Sutton Meagher, "Comment: When Personal Computers Are Transformed into Ballot Boxes: How Internet Elections in Estonia Comply with the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," American University International Law Review 23 (2008).

131 proposals placed by citizens on a government website

Freedom House-Latvia, 2012, http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/2012/latvia.

132 achieve higher levels of quality in the services they deliver

Tina Rosenberg, "Armed with Data, Fighting More Than Crime," New York Times, Opinionator blog, May 2, 2012, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/armed-with-data-fighting-more-than-crime/.

133 productive dialogues and arguments about issues and legislation

Clay s.h.i.+rky, "How the Internet Will (One Day) Transform Government," TEDGlobal 2012, June 2012.

134 watch Internet videos on television screens

Jenna Wortham, "More Are Watching Internet Video on Actual TVs, Research Shows," New York Times, September 26, 2012.

135 "be appropriated into the realm of the digital"

William Gibson, "Back from the Future," New York Times Magazine, August 19, 2007.

136 any other activity besides sleeping and working

Joe Light, "Leisure Trumps Learning in Time-Use Survey," Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2011.

137 watches television more than five hours per day

Nielsen, "State of the Media: Consumer Usage Report," 2011, p. 3. The American Video Viewer, 32 hours, 47 minutes of TV viewing weekly = 4.7 hours per day, http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/reports-downloads/2011-Reports/StateofMediaConsumerUsageReport.pdf.

138 spends 80 percent of his or her campaign money

eMarketer, "Are Political Ad Dollars Going Online?," May 14, 2008, http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006271&R=1006271.

139 Philadelphia and easily find several low-cost print shops

Christopher Munden, "A Brief History of Early Publis.h.i.+ng in Philadelphia," Philly Fiction, http://phillyfiction.com/more/brief_history_of_early_days_of_philadelphia_publis.h.i.+ng.html.

140 destructive trend is likely to get much worse before it gets better



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