In an unprecedented event, global protests that organized to demostrate against political and economic crises (Arab spring, outraged movements, Occupy Wall St.) were spontaneously organized without defined personal or political leadership.
In October 2012, for example, using social networks to coordinate and communicate, protesters gathered against the global crisis on the same day in 950 cities in 82 countries. It is, perhaps, the first protest of a truly global and collective nature.
Citizens vividly demand to be taken into account beyond the rounds of elections that take place periodically and, although the protests are difficult to maintain over time constitute, no doubt already, a political fact of the new era. It is not the traditional competition of the last century between the left and the right or the state versus the market.
In this new era, the protests seem to pose a watershed between those who exercise power in a vertical, hierarchical and exclusive manner and those who seek a horizontal, cooperative and transparent power.
They are profound changes, which suddenly become vertiginous. With the same intensity, a new economy appears on the horizon of the 21st century, modeling new institutions to the rhythm of new actors and new rules of the game.
It seems to be led by a set of emblematic sectors that make innovation and technical change its character and essence, promising to revolutionize-even more-the way we live.
