How does digital media serve the human spirit? Is digital technology "foreign" or of genetic origin? Where does humanism come from and what does it mean at the turn of the millennium?
What is cyberspace and how do we design it? What does the design of digital media and immersive environments mean for us? What are the cornerstones, the tenets, of cyberspace aesthetics and architecture and physics?
Earth's natural systems are dealing with the pervasive impact of
humankind's "neonature" of cities and towns and farms and mines and automobile/industrial pollution and consumer waste. How can digital media and cyberspace help heal the planet and build a workable human environment?
The union of art and technology is a story with ancient origins. What are the key issues and ideas in today's new chapters of digital art making?
Education: understanding: vision: knowledge: wisdom: awareness. Meditation
and prayer, magic mushrooms and marijuana, spirited music, ritual dance, revelatory art. Psychology. Metaphysics. Sport. Love. Communication. Commune. What is our essence? How does our spiritual nature evolve?
The world media field, evolving from digital systems, will transcend language and cultural barriers in the creation of a new body of global knowledge and point-to-point intercommunication between groups and individuals. What does this mean for language? I
s the hypermedia mind demanding a new school of rhetoric?
Peace among nations: we have made tremendous progress, yet still suffer from conflict and fear, magnified by the primitive media lens. How do we grow a world society, building on the cultures borne of nation-states?
