Dear Kara,
reading your article makes me think of how much people could be ignorant about Italy.
As an italian deeply involved in technology, who spends a lot of time in the US too, I’d like to point out that:
- Italy is one of the most important countries when it comes to 3G and mobile phones… many of the mobile phones I can find in the US (I usually stay in California) when I visit BestBuy or something, were available in Italy 3-4 years ago (italian people would laugh at them… )
- in Italy, there was the first Internet Service Provider in Europe
- in the US people dream of the high speed internet I can get in my house
- most brilliant US geniuses have italian roots
- many US people looked at my Nokia N95 as if it came from Mars (”hey, when did you get that phone? wonderful!”)
- Facebook has been translated into italian (and very badly) just a few months ago… this helped to make it widely known by italians
- again, Twitter. Not many people want to deal with english-only services. As soon as an italian version will be available, I bet it will go mainstream in Italy, too
- italians use SMS. Do you know what a SMS is? 
I saw with my eyes americans who couldn’t send an SMS from their mobile phone…
All that said, I think you should come to italy more often in order to get a better understanding of the relationship between italians and technology/internet. Send me an SMS when you do that 
Ciao
Luca Filigheddu
p.s. the right phrase is “Tutto Cambia, Cambiamo Tutto?”
p.s. I apologize in advance for my bad english, I’m italian
UPDATE:
- here is the original italian article which let me know about Kara’s post
- an interesting a thoughtful post by Sheryl Breuker
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