Computer networks are one tangible form of interconnectedness.
We are only just beginning to tap into the potentials presented by a technology that makes it easy for people to work together and share their thoughts and experiences even when they are a great distance apart. Probably not, if Slava Vaynshteyn and Thandi Emdon are any guide. Both are students at Brighton High School in Rochester, NY, but they're also pioneers of a new kind of school - one whose campus reaches around the globe and yet exists in no single place. So most importantly, I am glad to be part of the new process of friendships. The project, conceived, created, and funded by American textile magnate Peter Copen, was the first time anyone had joined US and Russian classrooms.