If capitalism is a pregnancy, we are in labor. Our ways of being -- the ways we have used money, technology and each other -- have been so unsustainable up to this point, but they may not have all been in vain. We’ve reached the 9-month threshold -- an inflection point -- and now we’re about to deliver a child.

The issues we face as a human species are far too complex and entangled for any one person to comprehend. The information terrain is certainly bumpy, and it’s only getting bumpier. We might look around this strange new world and realize there are places, nooks and crannies our eyes can’t reach, so we must reach out to one another to grasp its contours.