The collective will and our social contract has changed the world's political landscape over the last year or so. Azuma looks back at Rousseau and Freud then forward to Twitter and Google to express how man deals with their part of the collective will through time. Azuma's challenges society's perceptions of general will by looking at three philosophies through time and techonology. <br><br>A Look a Postmodern Society from one of Japan's leading critics and NY Times Editorial Contributor. Hiroki Azuma is Asia's prermier philosopher and literary critic. While he made a name for himself in academia with a look at the growth of technology through modern media, Azuma has looked at culture and humanity from a historical perspective as well describing Japan's cultural shift after the Tohoku Earthquake for the NY Times or revealing the power of social networking through Twitter and Google online and in the classroom.