Wow, fantastic site by Tim Berners-Lee about design issues and web technology. We're getting closer to something really wild and powerful. Blogs and podcasts are part of that, but it's going to be much more. A way to empower many more people.

Those $100 laptops for every child, those are going to be the key, to have a world where kids can really contribute to the global dialogue, can really both listen and participate. Where we are going is going to take where we have been, all the philosophy, literature, all cultures and will synthesize it into something new. Where now we have a world of couch potatoes and a very few creative produces, we will have a world where everyone is creative, a musician, an artist, a writer, everyone will have their 15 years of fame, and in constantly changing groups.

Anthopologists study chimpanzees, but they should study Bonobos. In chimp society, they saw a mirror of the harsh kill or be killed world of the city, where rigidly enforced social and sexual roles force men to be the agressors, and women to be the ones looking for safety at all costs. In Bonobo society, problems are resolved by sex. I'm not saying that our problems in the future will be resolved just by sex, but by a sharing of ideas that will be even more potent than sex. We're moving there, or rather, this is a road that is now open to us.

We have a choice, follow the warmongers and the haters to a place where humans start de-volving, or transcend our biology and embrace our biology and become something new. The people of my generation, the Blue Children, just don't understand. The Indigo Children are starting to understand, but they are too angry. The Crystal Children have a chance at understanding and following this new road.

If you don't understand this. Try.