Most entrepreneurs want, above all, their own freedom. So I’m posting this for that reason lest you think it “off topic”.
The Printing Press accelerated the cause of freedom 500 years ago. Is text messaging the next great step forward in the fight for freedom?
From StrategyPage
November 21, 2005: The government sees cell phones as a bigger threat to its power than the Internet. There are now 383 million cell phone users, and most of them have appeared in the last five years. Most users have texting service. The text messages enable the population to mobilize without government supervision. Text messaging allows Chinese to share information without government supervision. Currently, cell phone users send over 25 billion text messages a month. A current example of the power of this was the government attempt to control news about the November 13 chemical spill into the river supplying drinking water for the city of Harbin. With about 15 cell phones for every 100 Chinese, and service available in every part of the country, there was no way the government could control the story. Another cell phone worry is the vulnerability of the system to attack via electronic warfare, or the Internet. China’s booming economy demanded cell phones, which first appeared in the late 1980s. China thought cell phone technology could be controlled, but that proved not to be the case.
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