TheStar.com - News - New realities for a hand-held society

TheStar.com - News - New realities for a hand-held society

a study of modern technology's impact on the larger Arab
world is do:

"The huge change happening in the Middle East today can be reduced to one
sentence: New technology is an earthquake," said Kahi, founder of the
Lebanese Center for Societal Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize.

"It is destroying the single most important attribute of governments in this
region ­ the ability to control information. That era is dying. Now, we can
all be our own ministers of information."