Ok well maybe the idea of social interaction and exchange as it is expressed through tickers, tweets and text ain’t so new, but the method of exchange is new.
“Two scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries say the earlier era prefigured the ‘information overload,’ with its own equivalents of Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Social networks have been key to almost all revolutions – from 1789 to the Arab Spring.”
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