50% + 1: When will we get there?

I recently posted discreetly that 1/3 of the world's population already has access to the internet, a figure published by a major research institute, the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom. This information raised some questions for me, and I will try to elaborate on them below.

Imagine this: with only 30% of society connected, we can say that about 20% are well-connected and the other 10% are "mediocre" connected. I'm probably not exaggerating, but even if it's 30% today, the world will never be the same again.

Today my writing makes my legs tremble because I will try to associate this audience and reach with the formation of public opinion, which today, in my humble opinion, is known and recognized by the research above by 30% of the population, second by second, through the internet.

I'm not a research professional, but I know that public opinion only began to be measured or understood with the advent/launch of the first newspaper, which, by guesswork, must have been at most weekly. Which is nothing more than published opinion.

Those who know about this will tear me apart when they read this... I think that when the internet reaches 50% of the world's population, we will have a truly large number of people expressing their opinions systematically in more heated demonstrations and protests, with real legitimacy due to the sheer size of the majority in action, or rather, in determination.

Perhaps I don't even need to mention that, during the Arab Spring which has been ongoing for two or three years, we were about 20% connected, a percentage that is already credited with the greatness of the internet and its penetration.

Looking at the demonstrations in Brazil – where 30% of the population is indeed connected – it's logical to say that we are the most "mediocre" 30% on the planet; in short, we know how things work here in Brazil.

I never talk about politics, but I think from now on our politicians should be worried. Soon we'll be able to tell, via GPS, where those elected by the people are, and every day we'll know more about where and how they steal our wealth.

The figures for transparency are becoming more and more blatant every day – in the good sense of the word – and are being disseminated with the meteoric speed of the web, to the point that countries can no longer deceive the global tax authorities; thus, we are joining the online and globalized bankruptcy movement.

How many years will it take us to reach 50% + 1? How are most things elected on the planet, or even here in this Brazilian brothel? Excuse me, but here we are turning into an orgy of corruption and disregard for so-called public opinion, and I hope we will be the first to rebel against everything and everyone through the vast majority of the population by means of this new instrument that is connectivity, which we are learning to deal with. I think this way because here we still don't know what the new kind of stampede is like, as our Syrian, Egyptian, or Arab "cousins"—as we generalize them—are already experiencing firsthand this so-called connectivity.

In this text I'm exaggerating with my language... "What a load of crap!" We'll continue to see politicians take time off without guilt, travel by plane, or rent their luxury cars for double the price, and we'll pocket the difference! Or will we?

We're starting to understand mathematics. Two years ago we didn't even know what the streets in Syria were like, because it was forbidden for any cameras to enter there, and today we see bloody battles just meters from the presidential palace.

Looking back, I wonder what will happen when we reach 50% + 1. Will I be writing freely like I did this text last week, or will I be hearing loud rumblings in the street like the people of Damascus have been hearing for the past two years, before spring, which seems so far away from our homes?

Ahhhh, I thought it was a bit much to put "Opinion" next to the title.