Smartphones, computers and tablets with Internet access are one of the most powerful tools to bring people together, and give the masses the ability to work together for common goals.
These devices give the average people access to information, tools and communities that otherwise the individual wouldn't be able to have. All these things together empower people, and makes it practical to actually organize on the grassroots level in order to achieve things that otherwise would be a lot harder to do.
Not only that, it humanizes people and as such helps us to empathize with them. All of the sudden, what happens in other places doesn't happen just to unknown people. Those people have faces and names, and we feel more readily compelled to give them a helping hand.
We are more aware of whats going on around us, for better or for worse. Since we know, action can be taken and other people can be made aware of the facts.
It truly helps to make our communities stronger, by bringing the people on the community closer together and letting the individuals to get to know each other. It breaches distances and time, people can interact in anyway they can think. We are only limited by our imagination, if we can think of it there is a way.
This is why it's so important to keep the Internet free and open. And our devices should be enable us to collaborate with others in a meaningful way.
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