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television, advertising designed to brain wash us, and sexual exploitation havebecome the intoxicants designed to alleviate our fears, help us ignore problems,program us to become slaves to wanting more and ensure we remaindisconnected from natureR A global system of commerce provides large quantities of capital for thistransformation process; greed of the few with money is making things worse forthe majority who live with fear, hunger and slave like labor conditionsWhat we have been programmed to think of as advances, have also resulted in a greatdeal of destruction, poverty, and premature deaths. You have to ask yourself arethese the changes we really want or need? Do we have a choice? What will be thelonger-term consequences?Sustainability RevolutionIn 1979 there was a garage sale at the school I attended. Everyone donated thingsthat were of some value as a fundraiser for extra-curricular activities. On thisoccasion I found a small plastic device that had a touch -pad keyboard. It was calleda Timex 1000 personal computer. I cant remember how much it cost but I doubt Iwould have had more than about twenty dollars. To my amazement I was able toplug it in to our TV and create programs that displayed and calculated. Connecting acassette recorder allowed me to save the programs I created. Within a few weeks Iwas able to create games and would one day develop a bowling simulation game fora school project.By the time I reached University it was possible to buy a modem that allowed meto use a telephone line to access the schools central computer system. There waseven something called e-mail. Eventually, over the last ten years the ne twork ofUniversity computers, called the Internet, has evolved into the world wide Internetwe all take for granted. Amazingly, more and more, every bit of information wecould ever require is available instantly, anywhere in the world. In just over twentyyears the information revolution has changed the way the world works. My entireworking life has been based on jobs that would not have existed without thepersonal computer revolution.What is point of all this computer revolution stuff? Well, the oppor tunities existnow for a sustainability revolution composed of conservation first, then personaldistributed renewable power systems, sophisticated hybrid transportation systems31