Standing on the doorstep of this new electronic frontier, with all the Orwellian fears and paranoia's set aside. I'm somewhat fascinated how this is all starting to revolutionize almost every aspect of global society. Cyberspace is no longer a concept, a market, or a medium of communication, but has all the earmarks of an independent nation state of sorts. What is incredible is the age of most of its founders, developers and inhabitants.

Where Woodstock proved to a generation that a large number of people could come together for peace love and music, The new social networking avenues of the internet have proven that the same event can take place, and in an incredible leap forward remove the barriers of age, race, and social standing. It's not perfect, not utopian but if the internet community can do this in such a short time frame, without intent, without the incredible resources that nations have, it begs the question why are the youth of the net able to catapult forward while institutions like the UN travel somewhere between dead stop and dead slow.

The economic gloom that preoccupies most peoples minds these days, maybe the necessary distraction and correction needed to bring the qualities of what we as a society have learned, but conveniently lost to our obsession with consumerism, and hopefully we can return to the forefront of our ideals and priorities, the values that really count in a society. These values merged with the incredible energy and unbiased vision of the youth of this new frontier, revitalizes the dream that we seem to carry from civilization to civilization that we can rise above our ego's and self serving natures, to prove that we are indeed evolutionary beings, and once and for all break the cycle  of repetitive dysfunction.  (c)2009 Alexander Neave