I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

1947 America blasted off.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.