“If you won the lottery tomorrow, and you had the means to do anything you wanted, what would you do?”

That’s a better question to ask than, “If you had it to do all over again, what would you do differently,” simply because in reality, none of us has the ability to do it all over again. But, given the financial means to do anything we would ever want to do, the answers would reveal the causes, things, and purposes that are important to us.

A revolution in communication technology has taken place over the past twenty years. My college career missed it by about a decade. Consequently, most of what I know about computers and internet technology is self-taught. I find myself many times looking for answers without really understanding what questions I should be asking. So, more than anything else, self-teaching becomes very covetous of that most valuable of all resources, time. Having the financial resources buys no extra time, but it does allow our finite number of days to become more productive. And, to me, that’s what it’s all about: packing as much into each twenty-four hours as I can. So, in addition to buying the very best of the technological infrastructure and gadgetry, I would invest heavily in personal instruction on learning about the technology, and the processes of thought which are driving this new era. And, make no mistake: we have entered a new era of communication, information access, research, medicine, business, politics, everything. It has all been forever changed. And, for the better, I think.

About six years ago, the internet was to many of us, a dialup connection to AOL, email, Yahoo, and a corporate intra-net for internal communication. But to those with the training and vision, it was the platform on which Howard Dean’s Presidential campaign transformed the modern world of politics. The political Left has used this platform to dominate the internet in ways that the political Right is only now (if now) becoming aware of. Six years is several generations in the tech world. What are the questions that the Right needs to be asking as they try to play catch-up in a landscape in which they find themselves so far behind? I’ll be exploring these in upcoming posts. For now, I would consider it a victory if the Right will simply accept my premise: You’re getting your heads handed to you, and you don’t even know it. And, while waiting for your ‘08 ship to come in, don’t be surprised if you find out you should have instead been waiting at the airport.

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