While the world is being continuously made smaller through the proliferation of technology, particularly technology that facilitates communication, those at the helm are creating an increasingly homogeneous world. Such pop artists like Duran Duran, in their early 1990's song Too Much Information point out that the melange of information pushed is quite meaningless, but difficult to resist:
``...Destroyed by ABC;1 I hate to bite; The hand that feeds me; So much information. The pressure is on the screen; To sell you things; That you don't need...''
As a technology enthusiast, I am daily confronted with the marvel of the compression of time and space; both in amateur radio, and computers, I am fascinated about the fact that I can communicate with someone half way around the world, either by voice and Morse code, or text, instantaneously. But it is important to note the amount of information being propagated through the world is becoming more and more meaningless; from half-hour informercials, to the legal strife of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). While the Internet has the possibility to democratise the world, it also easily has the ability to strip away society from its basic rights, both as humans and as citizens.