One of the things that brought the Internet, is the ability to create communities around common interests with people with who otherwise it would be next to impossible to do so. It has given the power to the people to have a greater control over the products and services they consume, to the sharing of whatever they want with the others.
The Internet empowers people, it's the tool that allows to take greater control not only of what we consume, how we consume and to share it with other to whom we think it would be relevant. It also allows us to generate content, and to share it with others in order to make them aware of our concerns and our hopes. In many ways we are becomes less of a passive audience, and more of active participants of what's going on beyond of what going on at our immediate surroundings.
More than ever, people can have an impact on what happens not only on their community, but on events that are ongoing on other parts of the world. We can actually share with people from distant places, and have a real chance to develop strong communities with lasting relationships among the members.
At the local level, it forces all players to be more transparent on their actions. It makes it harder to hide things, since people can easily spot and share with others what's going on. Local governments and businesses are having a harder time hiding from their communities wrong doings, while making it easier for people to organize actions to prevent or punish any wrong doing.
It's no longer inconceivable that people can actually regain power, it has become a question of when will enough people gain consciousnesses of this fact and start acting on it.
The time for the people to govern themselves is close at hand, it just requires us to make it happen as soon as we can.
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