Not to undersell how messy and ugly the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been, neither to oversell the role of technology, but these things have given a sense of what's possible when the age-old model of power, the pyramid, gets turned upside down, putting the people on top and the pharaohs of today on the bottom, as it were.
不必说我们低估了 阿拉伯之春后接踵而来的混乱与丑陋， 也不必说我们高估了科技在其中扮演的角色， 但这一切给我们带来了期许—— 当古老的金字塔权利体系 上下颠倒，将人民推到塔顶， 而将现代的法老们推到塔底。