In an increasingly crowded world, one more aware of climate change and other stresses on our home planet and its societies, it is more important than ever that the individual feels the potential to make a positive difference.
Our time will be measured by how well we harness the empowering potentials inhering in global interconnection and meantingful virtual travel, cultural exchange, and learning. The isolating potential of a looming 'digital divide,' if turned around, could afford mankind a new literacy and universal access to the collected wisdom of civilization.
Much as the great democratic experiments are premised on an informed and engaged electorate, there is the real possibility that global community can be powerfully positive if we allow every human to be 'enfranchised.' Can we afford to not engage all of humanitiy's wits in refining and redirecting our path toward a sustainable and attractive future? If a new technology can be either 'problem' or 'solution,' those of us with access to it have a clear moral imperative.
[Dismounts soapbox to modest, polite applause from small, confused crowd.]
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