This afternoon I walked through The City. It could have been any large, cosmopolitan City, any place teeming with modern humans and the extensions of ourselves we've created. Looking at the people walking beside me, speaking into their communicators to other people walking in other Cities, I realized: a place like San Francisco of 02006 has not existed before.

Homeward bound on the North Bay ferry, I worked for an hour on a modern miracle: a slim device with a keyboard and display screen. The face of my laptop displayed a high resolution image beamed to us from another tool sifting the sands of Mars.

There are 6 billion+ people on this planet, and the weather forecast claims 9 billion likely by mid-century. This density of mind and muscle has given us possibility and power reserved for gods of the ancient world.

The technologies we've created to harness and extend ourselves have bridged the divide between peoples in a fashion preceding generations could only dream of. If homo sapiens can imagine it, we may create it. Our shared languages, both spoken and otherwise, have brought home the truth of our situation as one organism, one system, one interconnected whole.

Every person in the world populace is a super-powerful, multi-dimensional neuron in a planet-spanning mind. As more people are connected and learn to work together, this mind grows in ability. The LazyWeb becomes the AnswerWeb becomes the SurroundWeb becomes the ThisIsWhatYouWereAboutToAskMeWeb becomes the functionally OmniscientWeb.

We live in an unprecedented age, presenting unprecedented opportunities.

Grasping these opportunities means solving new problems.

We'll need unprecedented answers.

The past has clues for us, but not answers. It's time to create something new.

Someone out there, right now, has the seed which will grow into a solution for our population problem. The makings for common sense and technological fixes for the damage we've done are already in place, it just takes the planting of this seed and the nurturing of its growth. As you read this, someone is already tending to the green change in humanity's awareness.

Someone has a cure for self-doubt and the schism between ourselves and the externalized Other so many can't function without. They're putting the message into the world and fixing it in place: human animals can do it for themselves. There is no difference between within and without.

Someone knows how to make responsibility exciting and energizing rather than feared. There is no blame when there are no failures. There are no failures when you work together until the task is complete.

Someone knows how to stop AIDS in its tracks.

Someone knows how to find parents for every child without.

Someone knows how to eliminate the need for weapons.

Someone knows how to reforest the world and return extinct species to life.

Someone knows how to provide enough for every single person on Terra, even those who want more than they need.

Someone has a plan for raising the educational values of every nation under the moon and stars. An educated populace makes better decisions about the future. They know themselves as parts of the whole rather than brief flashes of ego and survival.

Someone isn't going to simply sit back and wait for the globe to collapse under humanity's weight. Someone already born and working has a foundation for moving forward, instead of back.

Someone has the answers and the ability to bring them to life, right here, right now.

I think this someone is you.