With the 10 year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks quickly approaching, many in the US have begun to reflect over the past decade. For those of us who lived through the attacks, it likely seems as though no other single event has more drastically altered the world in which we now live than the attacks.
According to Foreign Policy journalist and global trends expert David J. Rothkopf, however, the importance of 9/11 pales in comparison to a number of other events and occurrences that have taken shape since that fateful Tuesday morning. Like what, you ask? Facebook and Twitter, that’s what.
“What’s more important? Knocking down the World Trade Center and killing several thousand innocents or linking half a billion people together as never before (as Facebook did)? Passing notes from cave to cave in Waziristan or
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