Building Zion

Among the Latter-Day Saint community, Zion is defined as a place where the pure in heart dwell. The people that dwell in Zion are of "one heart" and "one mind". Building Zion requires that others are able to communicate sufficiently to understand one another, though individual likes and dislikes are still present.

Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat implicitly made it clear that his thesis of a flat world enhancing communication has helped build Zion. With the advent of of personal computing, and later, Internet technology, the barriers of communication began to break. People began to send E-mail, chat, and share pictures and experiences and anything else desired.

This expanded into developing television programs (like Higglytown Heroes) remotely (Friedman), as well as software packages like Linux and OpenOffice. Once the barriers of communication were gone, people could, as Friedman puts it, "upload" their content to share with others. This technology has evolved into things like Facebook, Flickr, and Blogger, allowing more people to share their ideas and their important moments with others.

It seems convincing, then, that if communication has increased, then this Zion-like community is more readily established.