Ethan Zuckerman on Rewiring Our World

There's a lot to think about here. I will say that I think this works at many different levels in one's life, not just globally. We need people to knock us out of our orbit. We humans love regularity, love pattern, and that can be ok; but too much of a good thing...well, you know. New pathways, new ways of seeing the world, new information, all of these things are healthy and necessary. Whether you're talking about family, work, friends, whatever, it's never good to be locked into the same way of doing things time after time. When you get out of your pattern, and are willing to accept the value of that change, you are often able to learn valuable things about yourself and the world around you that you would never have known before.