It probably seems this way to every generation, but it feels like big things are really happening. With the progression of technology, it’s truly become a glocal world.

There are billions more people than mere decades ago, and these people are more aware of the zeitgeist tide than ever before; because of the institutionalized communication systems we’ve developed, the realities of modern transportation, and the interconnected global economy. The average person can learn infinitely more than someone 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1000 years ago.

The internet has significantly democratized knowledge. There are rural Africans making less than a dollar a day who know much more about social media than I’ll ever know. Laotians in the UXO-filled countryside can learn political and economic theory from their smartphones.

But as this technological capability has fundamentally changed what’s possible for the human race, our organization hasn’t caught up. All around the world we still adhere to archaic laws, we still put ourselves into distinct groups, and massive inequality still abounds.

Can we catch up to our technology? Is it enabling us to restructure society, or simply incentivizing a dilapidated system? Can we utilize the enormous technological power now available to us all to create a more free, a more just, and a more equal global civilization?

More than any generation before, it’s up to this one.