how Gen Y and Technology are changing History

May 22nd, 2010

Jared Cohen is the rather remarkable State Department employee responsible for Twitter delaying its regularly scheduled maintenance shutdown during the Iranian uprising in the summer of 2009 so that communications and updates could continue unabated, he’s the author of the insightful book Children of Jihad that charts how young people everywhere in the Middle East from Iran to Israel have much more in common than they realize, plus he’s a Stanford grad and Rhodes Scholar.

In the above talk he outlines how technology is shaping and changing the way everything from militant attacks in Afghanistan to anti-authoritarian uprisings in Iran to grassroots resistance against FARC are organized and executed.

It’s a tremendously interesting talk that’ll change how you look at the evolving sometimes hidden role social media is carving out for itself among young people and societies across the globe.

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One Response to “how Gen Y and Technology are changing History”

  1. Jafar Akhbari

    Hi,

    In an interview with NPRs Fresh Air, one of the Twitter founders stated that that night they received hundreds of requests from all kinds of people to delay their scheduled maintenance and only one of those requests happened to be from The State Department. So, I’d question the accuracy of this phrase: “Jared Cohen is … responsible for Twitter delaying its regularly scheduled maintenance shutdown”.


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