What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.
We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.
We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.