Changes between Version 22 and Version 23 of techies_of_color

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Aug 27, 2010, 6:26:05 PM (14 years ago)

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alfredo

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 == The Importance of the Internet ==
 
-The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save humanity.
+The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save itself.
 
 Humanity's crisis demands greater communication and collaboration among the world's people. And humanity has been forging ahead in doing that with world-wide efforts like the World Social Forum and the Climate Control movement and, of course, the Internet.
 
-The Internet, a community of more than 1.9 billion people world-wide, is one of humanity's responses. When all else fails, human beings come together to communicate and figure out how to survive; that is our legacy as a species. That's what's happening today with the Internet. It is the only sensible explanation for the stunning explosion of the Internet as both a technology and a world-wide community.
+The Internet, a community of more than 1.9 billion people world-wide, is among humanity's principle responses. When all else fails, human beings come together to communicate and figure out how to survive; that is our legacy as a species. That's what's happening today with the Internet. It is the only sensible explanation for the stunning explosion of the Internet as both a technology and a world-wide community.
 
 The Internet is humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to make all this collaboration possible.