The Google Communication Revolution - Egypt Style

Messages in Stone  - Obelisk to Internet

The Cleopatras Needle in Paris is similar to the one above at Luxor Temple.  The Needles in London and New York are a pair that originated from the Egyptian City of Heliopolis.  Google and the internet have already set the pattern for the  future of communication based on modern language, which we see changing politics by the minute, particularly in Egypt today.  Wael Ghonim has found himself propelled into near revolutionary leader status, simply because of his links to Google and the world of Facebook.

The Cleopatra Needles represent the Egyptians earliest writings, but the world of Google in the 21st Century is quickly shrinking the information and language divides that have existed for the last three thousand years.

I am amazed at this world of wonderful information, thanks to Google I discovered a volume of reminiscences written by my Great-Grandfather and published because the copyright has expired.  He was a Victorian Actor, in one chapter he describes a sea voyage to India where his theatrical appearances included performing at a royal  wedding for the sons of the Rajah of Tanjore.  As his ship passed Sicily, they caught sight of the vessel carrying the London Cleopatras Needle.  The passengers had an excellent view through telescopes, although it did later sink and had to be recovered from the sea.  He mentions in another chapter, one of  his American acting tours, that time he visited the masonic ceremony in Central Park New York, for the opening of the US Cleopatras Needle, the twin stone to the London obelisk.  How marvellous that my ancestor had observed these significant icons of language and communication; at that moment in history.   Google brings time, place and people ever closer together to share in the freedom of a new language; that of the internet.