[轉錄]Technology and Revolution - 菲律賓

這篇很點短的點出了菲律賓簡訊與裡面所稱的「革命」的關聯性
其實與其說是革命
不如說是社運吧

Technology and revolution （科技與革命）

轉錄自Seeing Is Believing網站
（http://www.seeingisbelieving.ca/）

原文網址：
http://www.seeingisbelieving.ca/storyboard/revolution/

Joey works in a country where revolution and technology go
hand in hand.

The ability to send short text messages on cell phones helped
spawn a political revolution in the Philippines. President
Estrada was on trial facing charges of bribery, corruption
and breach of the public trust. Despite mounting evidence
against him, the President was let off the hook.

That sparked it. I mean, people saw it on television, and a
lot of people were revolted, they started text messaging each
other, sending each other messages over the Internet, and that
thing created a combustion, explains Ramon Isberto, a vice-
president at Smart Telecom in the Philippines.

Because of texting and e-mail, within two hours over 200,000
people converged in the main street of Manila demanding that
the president resign. The vigil lasted for four days and four
nights, until President Estrada finally got the message and
resigned.

Alex Magno, a professor of sociology in Manila, explains the
relationship between communications technologies and revolution:
In the last two decades or so, most of the political upheavals
had some distinct link to communications technology. Iran, the
Iranian Revolution, was closely linked to the audio cassette.
The first EDSA uprising in the Philippines was very closely
linked to the photocopying machine and so we called it the
'Xerox Revolution'. Tiananmen, the uprising that failed, was
called the 'Fax Revolution', because the rest of the world
was better informed than the rest of the neighbourhood because
of the fax machine. The January uprising here in the Philippines
represents a convergence between electronic mail and text
messaging. And that gave that uprising its specific characteristics.


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