The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.