I will buy a series of clocks if it takes Mousquitoes. Transportable at best so I can hang it up in my camping tent...

I know that terrorism is the only major concern of the western world together with the Swine flu and Obama's puppies + the funniest tricks cat do.

What I meant is it is hard to stumble upon the things like western debates like those presented on http://www.youtube.com/user/HauensteinCenter while walking around Hong Kong. You would have to fly to the U.S. and attend debates if youtube was cutting you out.

Also the West is taking more and more advantage of Internet to share their much better funded research like what you can find on:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

Also access to Nietzsche's or Socrates work in a digitally divided world is simply more difficult. Western philosophers are not studied much at all in most of the world's schools. You don't just stumble on them in every bookstore out here. And if you do order them, they are overpriced and take weeks to access.

So let us be clear:
- There are more than two civilisations on the planet
- Very few people on the planet care about Obama's puppies or the Bailout of AIG
- Internet is bringing us a much wider range of information much less filtered than through just CNN and BBC. It does mean there are flying cats on youtube which are probably as popular to watch in Beijing than they are in NYC. But there is such an amazing opportunity building up that should ideally not be cut between whether you are in Europe/North America or not.

I wish we could find a way to fund this new digital world in a way there are not "mini-Internets" where depending on where you are, you will only have a restricted access to your areas information.

Yes, I know.. it costs money.

But I just started thinking Internet is getting amazing again. The fact that I can stream a political discussion from the U.S. or access free e-books from Europe here in Hong Kong is AMAZING.

How can we resolve the money issue without breaking this? I feel people around the world have never had a chance like today to bridge misunderstandings. Up until 2 years ago the only understanding of Western world one could have far away was:

- Hollywood (or other typically fictional) movies

- Expensive imported books (sometimes requiring a language skill level not easily attained abroad)