Book excerpt: For the first time in recorded human history modern technology has created the condition where all people on the planet earth have the capacity to be connected to and in direct communication with almost any other person, anywhere on the planet, at the touch of a button. Mankind is currently in a dual struggle for our future. Do we, as a species, continue to be ruled over by our ignorance of each other or do we come into a more powerful and empowering understanding concerning our shared identity and capacity for human excellence? What awaits us is a future that is beyond the limited reach of surface and climatic features such as race, clanism, tribalism and a perspective of ethnicity that seeks to invalidate others.