The internet is a forum and a meeting place for anyone with access, and it 'exists' (for want of a better word) in our individual homes, sittings rooms and bedrooms. Soon we will all be carrying it around in our pockets. Anything that brings us together in our stratified, contemporay societies is a healthy thing. 

The future? I see the internet as a potentially significant tool in bringing real human communities together. The technology will only bind them in unique ways.  A tool that allows anyone on earth to meet other people at an ideas level is a very powerful, and potentially revolutionary one indeed. Only time will tell.   

We are not the stewards of the earth. My belief is that we are the earth. We were borne from the earth, and we will return to the earth when we die. We belong here, as does every single organism that has ever lived, with one very important exception - we can realise it and we can celebrate it. I would like to think that every belief system and institutionalised religion on earth could respect and believe in that idea.

To disrespect the earth is to disrespect our home, our people, our family and ourselves. To respect and to celebrate it is to truly live out two of the greatest things we can do as people.