Those who forget the past are destined to repeat it; history is repeating itself daily and deserves a more attentive audience.

As someone who pretends to be a journalist and tries to stay on top of current events it amazes me how quickly things change. Not so long ago, we lived in a world that everything wasn’t overly connected. On 9/11, people were carrying video recorders, not smart phones, and had to wait till they got home to see what they had.

The game done changed though. We are connected in a way that makes bible thumpers look to the sky for the return of Christ and the cynical inserting “Big Brother” references everywhere possible. Live video streaming services like Meerkat (http://meerkatapp.co/) and Periscope (http://www.periscope.com/) are the natural next event in technology pushing society forward following Ferguson. Snapchat is replacing the way almost everyone under the age of 18 is interacting (and a few old timers like me). Someone is always watching and someone is always a button click away from knowing what you are eating, doing, or thinking.

Sometimes it brings us images like the one at the top. Sometimes it serves as a tool of justice, like in the case of #WalterScott, proving he was never a threat. The ever watching eye truly see’s all.

Somehow it misses more than we like to admit though. For every idiot cop who shoots a man in the back there are thousands who do their jobs well and actually aim to serve and protect. A picture may be worth a thousand words, problem is, we are prgorammed to only work in increments of 140 chracters. The revoluton will be shared in revolutionary ways. I wonder how much those revolutionary ways have ruined us for having any chance of actually understanidng it though.

We still go to concerts yet, we find ways to not be present though because we have to record the whole show, sacrificing the real deal for the small, HD, rectangular version that will leave with us in our pockets. I don’t know that it is a good thing to be “in the moment” in regards to events like 9/11 but I am pretty sure it would’ve been worse if every other person was live streaming, tweeting, or snapchatting it to their very important peeps. It is thin line we are foreced to walk these days. Context matters and context is almost always bigger and longer than the 140 characters we have adapted our attention spans to embrace.

The revolution will be televised. If things stay the same, all 140 characters of it will fit nicely in the palm of our hands too.