The geek in me finds the explosion of effort to build an open social web really exciting and believes that we are on the verge of increasing connections among peoples.

The green in me looks at what we are doing to kill our planet and our fellow human beings, and believes that we are the verge of a catastrophe that will decimate life on this little ball in space.

All of the cyberpunk novels I read in college are looking way more likely.  argh…  back to the struggle.