In a recent YES Magazine article, "Building Cultures of Peace", Riane Eisler describes what kind of culture we find ourselves living in along with how to create a new culture and peaceful economic model. This economic model would be different from the growing dominator economic model that is causing our country to head towards totalitarianism. We've been lead by a culture of fear the past 10 years we need to move towards a peaceful culture where people trust one another and innovation can occur. The new economy must be born out of love, not fear.
In the 21st century networks will link together information and intelligence to create a all prevalence network that can see everything that every citizen does in real time and record it. Data sets can be put together to point out suspected terrorists along with potential people doing criminal activity. The lines have been drawn by the federal government. You as a citizen will have no privacy as corporate entities will be hired by the Federal government to collect information and put it into data sets for them to analyze. Photosynthesis technology such as below will create new ways for corporations to connect the internet to form this information:
This article appears in Feb 17-23, 2010.