Back In 1983, The United States Government

Today We Are Raised With The Notion That To Be Secure Is To Be Financially Autonomous. Amassing Wealth Is Viewed As The Primary Rite Of Passage To A Secure, Autonomous Existence.

We Need A Change In Consciousness To Go With This Technology Platform. We Need A New Narrative: We Need To Shift From Geopolitics To Biosphere Consciousness In One Generation. The Biosphere Is Understood Here As What Goes From The Biosphere To The Depths Of The Ocean 40 Miles Where All Living Beings Interact With All Chemicals To Create A Very Complex Choreography That We Call "life On Earth". That Is Biosphere That Is Our Indivisible Community.

We Are Already Producing Enough Food To Feed The World. We Already Have Technology In Place That Allows Us To Produce More Than We Can Find A Market For.

With The Communication Internet, Whole Industries Have Been Disrupted. You're In The Publishing Industry, You Understand That. Before, We Had Newspapers, Magazines - Now You're On The Web. I'm In Book Publishing. I Don't Have To Tell You What's Happened To Us. Television Has Taken A Hit. The Music Industry. But, Thousands Of New Businesses Have Emerged On This New Communication Revolution Platform. Not Just Google, Facebook, And Twitter. There Are Thousands Of Operations. Businesses That Are Doing The Platforms, The Apps. They're Mining The Big Data. They're Creating The Connections.

When You're Sharing The Music, You're Not Buying The Cd. When You're Sharing That Video, You're Not Buying The Tv. But We Thought, Really, There'd Be A Firewall. While Near-zero Marginal Cost Would Impact Virtual Goods, We Never Thought It Would Move Over To The Physical World.