propagation of these changes. Television began 
the process by helping to begin the creation of the 
global village, showing that all people were the 
same family, that this was one small planet, that 
we have to think about our lives, our neighbours 
and our world in a different way than we had 
before. That realization is gathering force with the 
even more immediate connection people have with 
digital technology, being able to connect directly 
up to other brains in effect, all around the planet, 
create new communities. These new communities 
have new dynamics and they don’t necessarily 
relate to the dynamics of the 18th or 19th century 
political thought that’s still lumbering forward in