Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the ammunition of information fueling the Global Revolution :

I think you can't discount how incredible the impact is of people having access to knowledge, so they are aware of different ways of living, and they are aware of different possibilities for the future, and they begin to have a belief that 'Gee, actually, this country is allegedly a democracy, and we all know it isn't – it's time to demand change.' And that's no simple thing – it's about Wikipedia, it's about blogs, it's about news headlines from overseas – that flow of information, and people having more of a consciousness about what's possible in the world."