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encourage adoption of data management systems in other parts of the world, promoting not only technology but faster and greater layers of Western style democracy - albeit open communication leading to a more open, urban, society.

The Blackberry Riots are an especially interesting curve in the flow of technology as the Tiananmen Square Riots, exactly 22 years earlier, were fought with makeshift communications with the West, allowing audiences worldwide to catch a glimpse behind the "Forbidden Cities" inside China - thanks to phones and fax machines.

Twenty or so years ago was also the same time the Internet came to global life thanks to funding from the European government project CERN

and an English scientist and scholar - creating the basis and foundation for the WWW 3 Consortium.

The Economist Group (UK-based) has raised concern in the least of obvious ways in a published piece a few months ago.

While the prestigious Financial Times has been one of the staunchest

advocates (FT owns 50% of The Economist Group), and biggest beneficiaries, for the news media move from paper to digital, FT is also one of many concerned about the ability of content producers to control distribution in the age of rampant digital social media channels.