The essence of the Seventh Sense will be not merely to be beguiled by our

The essence of the Seventh Sense will be not merely to be beguiled by our technology, by the way it smashes old systems, not to ask “Could you please leave the room while I use bend these electrons to even more omnipotent control,” but rather - in the same instant as the networks snaps into its full power- to grasp the full nature of the connected age. To see how it might be used to further, not erode, the things we care most about. To ensure that if we are not among the very few, at least we can guarantee that their will bends towards justice. We will see, ina moment, just what that means in practice. How our best technology and our most avid hopes for what a technological, connected future could look like might just be yoked together. But before we can do that, there is one final question we need to answer about the networks all around us now: What, in the end, are they really for? 126 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018358