InterNetIgator; n Internet Navigator and/or Investigator.

I have this hope that the Internet is society's new high sea. Where people can find some adventure and some learning all with less expense and pain.

IMHO(in my humble opinion), society is better of when educated.

Our society being so much more than instincts needed as the hunter or the hunter, or both, needs a human to be trained in it's ettiquetes and policies. The world is practically being run via the stock market, yet many people know little about the machinations of such. The why's and wherefors of the modern world demand a good education if people are to be given an equal chance at life on earth.. Then one can manage more effectively to provide for oneself and family. As smart humans we could provide for all comfortably if our consciousness took in, much more than it does now, the state of the globe. We all need a global consciousness if we are not fooling ourselves that our kids are not destined to die in some horrific war/famine/plague due to the backwash of human existance on this planet.

The planet is a fixed size and yet our population is not fixed. We grow at an alarming rate. This can only spell doom for the planet. Humankinds ability to dominate it's surroundings has not been matched with a benevolence towards the creatures of this world which we sweep aside for our own gain. Sweeping them aside toward a future that is bleak with a lack of biodiversity and space for people to live healthy lives.

This is why I believe that population control on a global scale is one of the first steps in making important motions toward global harmony.

Education follows closely with that so people could start to make educated decisions about the practises being performed by corporate giants in regard to the use of land and resources around our living space. Instead of leaving it up to the politicians to sell out our utilities and resources for a short gain. Campaign winning stuff it may be but not for the good of society.

The Net could help mankind farm better. Large areas of the planet are literally being wasted in "slash and burn move on within a few years" farming. All for an easy dollar, often because propaganda/advertising provides where an education and government/community support isn't.

It could show many of us that there are enough of us in this world already and that what we have to do now is find out just how impressive we could be as a species and actually get along with one another. That for us to breed out of control just gives us more reason to compete for a [mostly] finite set of resources that need to be rationed and shared fairly.

I see the Net saving teachers from being the babysitters they are becoming as they help students reach out and research the world around them. Rather than following the wrote of a list of textbooks thrust on them from on high.

The Net does this for many already, but we still live in denial. A world that wants us to remain ignorant of the injustices and the malpractises of many. The major money makers don't want you to be aware of their bad practises. They don't want to save that pond full of rare frogs, regardless of the implications of an animals extinction.

The Net could help fight inequity and injustice the world over.

If humans are the master race, smarter than other earth inhabitants then shouldn't we be proving that by nurtutring a planet that is freed from pollution and poverty? Too much of the struggle seems to be for wealth instead of for quality of life, which doesn't have to be dependant on money.

Then again I was Just Thinkin'.

nomad