Nearly all leading Asian nationalists were men of ample learning, including the self-taught warehouseman Andres Bonifacio, who founded the Katipunan, the underground society that ignited the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

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But all too often, their best efforts are thwarted because the technological revolution that has transformed our society over the past two decades has yet to reach many parts of our government.

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The revolution and evolution technology and its impact on society is only accelerating.

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Thanks in large part to the technology revolution, we have spent the last 50 years opening the back of society to admire the mechanism inside.

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