07.03.2012                      13.Adar. 5772                      Fasttag Esther

Politik:

Peres: Technology has changed role of gov'ts

Speaking at Facebook HQ, president says his greatest hope is that peace becomes the business of people instead of gov'ts.

In an interview at Facebook headquarters in California on Sunday, President Shimon Peres praised the social network and modern Internet-based technology in general for reversing the role of the ruler and the ruled.
Peres told Facebook COO and interviewer-for-the-day Sheryl Sandberg that due to technology, today “people rule governments more than the other way around”….