Some quick trend observations

Stating the obvious here for some people but recording these thoughts because I don't want to bother with writing them down on paper and then later eliminating or expanding upon them here when I turn some of them into a humorous story:

• Will the decrease of paper newspapers and journalism as a viable profession have any effect on the effectiveness of community citizenship and Internet censorship? And what are the macro-effects of Internet censorship on citizen journalism? Who causes the macro-effects?
• Is there a trend where we keep encapsulating our lives, insulating us from diversity, that our subcultures become virtually isolated from each other, despite the openness of the Internet?
• Is the Internet really open?
• Can the global economy support a human population fully connected to the Internet?
• What is the definition of "fully connected to the Internet" - 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 99%? And to what extent does the information trickle-down effect of one person connected to the Internet to that person's unconnected peers have to do with the first part of this question?
• How many of us completely ignore dissident views to begin with (censorship at the personal level)?
• In the isolated subcultures, what future revolutions are being fomented? In the battle for the mind, what propaganda techniques are the isolated subcultures using against each other?
• The modern struggle is economic, with government military posturing securing/comforting the general population. How long will this unsure balance last before someone declares war?
• What does it take for money to become obsolete?
• How does an isolated subculture rise to power without money or military strength? "Flash market" techniques? Texting "wars"? Play up dissidence in its group while playing up complacency in nearby subcultures?
• How subtle are the influences of the Internet if you're a full-fledged member of a subculture? In other words, how many subculture adherents stray into overlapping arenas (general news sites, etc.)?
• In the need to promote the free marketplace of ideas in citizen journalism, how do freedom writers endanger that freedom by inadvertently spreading subliminal messages from those who want their own subculture to dominate?
• Terrorism is a tactic with many methods of deployment, not all of which have obvious negative implications or immediately evident connotations. A stop sign placed on a busy thoroughfare has more than a benign effect on those drag racing across a side street when met by a driver who refuses to stop for anyone.
• When is a depression not a depression? When is a war not a war? When is money not money? Where do you think you're going if you don't know what it's all about (especially, if you think you do)?

I look forward to writing this story!