It seems unimaginable even to me, a dial-up child of
punch-card parents, that Cuba got its first experience of WiFi just last fall.
It’s unimaginable for a lot of reasons, not greatest that Fidel ‘Just-to-darn-mean-to-die’
Castro really does have that tight a grip on his island nation, and not least
that the rest of the world let their fear of him prevent them from reaching out
to the people under his thumb for so long. The normalization of relations with
Cuba was a long time coming; too
long, if I am any judge. I know America as a nation can hold a long grudge, but
I think better of the American people than I do of our country.
At least in this I have not been disappointed. Less than a
year after Cuba was ushered into the wire-free echelons of the information age,
our peoples have reached out to each other and made a new path out of Cuba, not
by boat or by air but by friendly connections and a ring of satellites. At the
incredible speed of social media, Cubans are finding their way north. Let’s
hope this is only the first of many new things for our two nations. We may not be friends in the traditional sense of the word, but we are on Facebook.
Social Media to the US
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