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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