That’s the famous quote from BBC’s Torchwood. And you know what, they’re right. But not because of the aliens, or the end of the world. The 21st Century is when a man can become world famous almost over night, with just a few clicks. We’ve all seen the power of the internet. It brings us talking dogs, our favourite songs, instant movies. It lets us talk to someone hundreds of miles away. But recently, people have begun to truly harness the power of the internet. This Christmas just past, a practical unknown got to number 4 on the official Christmas day charts. Alex Day, aka Nerimon, has gathered over the past 6 years has around 500,000 subscribers on YouTube. He made chart history by encouraging them to by his single “Forever Yours” and became the first unsigned artist in the top 40.
In London and other major cities in the UK, riots were organised on Twitter and Facebook, leading to losses of £100 million in London alone. These surely would have not been possible a mere 10 years ago, back when no one had ever even heard of Facebook or YouTube, when Twitter wouldn’t even exist for another four years. Yet now many of us can no longer imagine life without any of these devises.
Of course, like anything, the internet can be used for good and bad, as shown above. The 2011 Arab Spring was defiantly fuelled by the power of social networking sites. People who were too scared to raise their voice before found the freedom to do so by the internet. We can now bring leaders to their knees with the right video, the right status, the right tweet. By the end of this year, we shall truly being to understand the true power of what we’re going through.
The 21st Century is when everything changes
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