In 2014 we may not have the flying cars and the futuristic life we imagined in our movies all these last few decades, but we have something that could arguably be even bigger, the internet.
In 2010 WikiLeaks website posted what was supposed to be secret intelligence and diplomatic reports on many leaders and corrupted members of government officials and their families. This came as a shock and a revelation to millions of citizens in those counties that were already at the edge of revolting. Soon after, Facebook, Twitter and other social media took over and few months later we witnessed what is known as the Arab Spring or the Jasmin Revolution in Tunisia.
http://www.academia.edu/2554607/THE_SPRING_OF_THE_NETWORKED_NATIONS_SOCIAL_MEDIA_AND_THE_ARAB_SPRING
To say that technology caused a revolution would be wrong or inaccurate, but technology either brought down soft dictatorships when they could have continued for many more years or at very least we could say that technology helped the masses communicate and organize in a way that would have never been possible before. A way that was easily suppressed in the past using the state police and intelligence...
