The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

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.

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.