Tom Stoppard, in his play "Arcadia" describes the scientific ferment of the 1820s as follows: "A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
 
This is part of the way I feel about where we are today.…

Everything we thought we knew is wrong.
 
• What are facts? What is true?
 • The implications of climate change
 • The permanence of "government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
 • The belief that we were secure in our information and our privacy
 
Yes; it's scary. Yes; It's sad. Yes; It's dangerous.
 
But it's also exhilarating.

It's Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill.

It's us discovering/creating new forms to secure the village.

No one's done this before. No one's had to do this before.

And now we're part of a community of interested people and organizations working together to create a secure private world.

How cool.

This is the long-term view.