A New Opportunity

 

 

[image error] When I was in Tanzania fifteen years ago, Nicki and I saw Masaai tribesmen herding cattle, standing on one leg speaking into cell phones. And…I grinned.  I knew that humanity was going to be just fine.

For the first 250,000 years of our history, we could lie about our neighbors with impunity. They ate babies. They weren’t human.  They didn’t have the same basic values. They needed to be exterminated or dominated for their own good.

Then just 200 years ago we got the telegraph: instant co...