One Decisive Moment

The unprecedented speed and ubiquity of technology has brought about a convergence of ideologies and cultures that would have been unimaginable just a generation ago. As we herald this dawning of the ‘Information Age’, we wrestle with the nagging thought that we may have been caught unprepared for so much communication so soon in our social evolution.
What we are experiencing are the growing pains of a species in transcendence of itself. For only the last ten years, satellite television and the internet have provided for a real-time global conversation. The world is starting to understand itself better day-by-day. This new understanding is profound, wonderful and at the same time extremely volatile. As we are learning to see each other as brothers and sisters, we are forced to find common ground amongst our most fundamental differences. No longer do we enjoy the insular comfort and ignorance of distance. The other side of the world is just a millisecond away and we have the ability to destroy it, and ourselves completely.
We are each in our own way coming to terms with this ‘Brave New World’. Some embrace it wholeheartedly with courage and faith in humanity, others live in mortal fear of what it might mean to the only way of life they have ever known and instead chose to live their lives between diversions and within the confines of a voluntary ignorance.

The human race has reached a critical focal point and regardless of whether we are prepared for it, the moment has come...