Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Would God see the Internet as heresy? “Absolutely not,” said Marx. “The heresy is not that mankind works together-it is to what ends. It is essential that we use this new ability to communicate and collaborate for the right ends-for constructive human aims and not megalomaniacal ends. Building a tower was megalo-maniacal. Bin Laden's insistence that he has the truth and can flatten anyone else's tower who doesn't heed him is megalomaniacal. Collaborating so mankind can achieve its full potential is God's hope.” How we promote more of that kind of collaboration is what the final chapter is all about. Conclusion: Imagination THIRTEEN: 11/9 Versus 9/11 Imagination is more important than knowledge. —Albert Einstein On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. —Two dogs talking to each other, in a New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, July 5, 1993 Reflecting on this past decade and a half, during which the world went flat, it strikes me that our lives have been powerfully shaped by two dates: 11/9 and 9/11. These two dates represent the two competing forms of imagination at work in the world today: the creative imagination of 11/9 and the destructive imagination of 9/11 ...»