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I so look forward to the next 10 years and the technologies that will evolve. The ones that draw our world closer together. The technologies that help us connect even more as humans. Across cultures, religions and other divides. I look forward to seeing how we use these tools in ways the creators of them never imagined, but you did and you made a difference. The technologies that help us understand each other better, connect, create, share and reinvigorate our world and find new economic and political systems. That promote greater democracy, hopefully shatter more dictatorships and move us ever forward to understanding our world, our universe and each other.

The less ignorance there is, the less racism there is. The less ignorance there is, the less hatred and violence there is. The more we laugh, the more we share and understand, the less we see divides and the more we see similarities. Between races, creeds, religions and gender. The more borders become irrelevant.

To do this, we must keep sharing, creating, discussing, debating, laughing, crying and being. Being human. This is the first time humanity has had the opportunity to understand one another better and to find the commonalities which truly bind us all - that we are ALL human. That we all love and want to be loved, beyond anything else...no matter where we came from or where we are going. Perhaps we will truly discover that we are all far more alike than we are different.

This is our time. This is your time. Reach out. Connect. Share. Discuss. Debate. Think and reflect. Make 2012 the year we start to find how much we are all alike. No matter our religion, race, creed, gender, sexual preference. Together, in dialogue, we can make this world an incredible, exciting, vibrant and energizing place. So in 2012, stop, take a breath. Walk and talk into a brilliant future...it is ours to share.

I'd like to walk and talk with you, just to hear your thoughts and ideas, just to, well, talk. Will you join me so we can explore? It will be a great adventure, filled with new wonders, I promise you that much.