Global Perspective

As you start to travel the world your perspective certainly changes. I grewup in many different countries due to my fathers work. Even so, I am still surprised when I travel and experience firsthand the extremes of uneven wealth distribution. In certain destinations I marvel at the almost miraculous population density. Yet in other cases I am awaken and surprised by the everyday security realities. 

When you return home, the contrast certainly hits you.

Many have written about the Chinese Foxconn employee who committed suicide after losing an iPhone prototype. Oreilly writes a thoughtful piece, "Seeing Our Culture with Fresh Eyes". He ponders a look back at our current culture in 100 years:

"What will people think of our enormous steak dinners and obese portions of food? That's on the cusp of changing. What will they think of our profligate use of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources? Our assumption that the American way of life will go on forever, just as it is, much as the British thought their empire would go on forever? What about our assumptions about unlimited technological progress? Will science fiction visions of star flight or "the Singularity" seem as quaint as "the White Man's Burden"?"