There is an ever changing world waiting out there for us every day. A new world in which rapid access to knowledge makes the standards we are accustomed to and the certainties we thought acquired once and for all suddenly seem old and obsolete.
It is a rapidly evolving world, where the image of a reality that belongs to everyone is no longer the exclusive property of the few, and where dogmatism has lost its right to citizenship. An unprecedented scenario, in which the abstract hope of shortening distances and removing obstacles between people has become a real, everyday experience.
This is the world in the time of the Internet.
Open 24 hours a day, the Internet has abolished passports and the boundaries of race and religion, making ideology and prejudice obsolete. It has banished walls and barriers, never before as ineffective in their vain attempt to hold back the sea of free thought and knowledge - or worse - to repress fundamental human rights. Walls ready to be torn down, under the pressure of a new humanity which is born from the contribution of all: possibly the most elusive, fascinating revolution in history.
The Internet is 40 years old.
It has turned what was a privilege only a short time ago into a habit: access to information and knowledge. It has turned what was once an exception into the rule: sharing news and knowledge, stepping forward.
The web collects and spreads every message, amplifying calls for help and cries of pain, making us more aware and attentive. More free.
And freedom is essential for building peace.
This is why Lancia, supporting the continuing call for freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi and Mandela Day/46664, promotes the candidature of the Internet for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
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