Jared Cohen: ?It Will Be Easier To Start Revolutions, But They Will Be Just As Hard To Finish?

If you want to understand what is going on at the nexus of technology and youth protest movements around the world, watch this video. Jared Cohen, who is a director at Google Ideas writing a book with Eric Schmidt and previously was an advisor to the State Department, gave the presentation above at Techonomy. Cohen studied firsthand the Green Revolution in Iran, and then the Arab Spring. He noticed that young people in Iran were using Bluetooth, but not for wireless headsets, but rather as a technology to communicate peer-to-peer.

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