The New Seven Wonders of the World

The New Seven Wonders of the World were named on Saturday by an online global poll. They include The Great Wall of China, Brazil’s statue of Christ and The Taj Mahal.

With 90 million votes from all over the world, the organisers at one point were begging people to use text messaging as the server had crashed due to volume of traffic.

What is amazing for me is the ability of ordinary people to participate in making this decision, empowered by technology. What’s equally amazing is that anyone from anywhere on the planet could take part, again empowered by technology.

This process would have been unimaginable a mere 20 years ago. For me, the real wonders of the modern world are the internet and mobile communications.