Culture technology communication : towards an intercultural global village Introduction: Whats Culture Got to Do with It Cultural Collisions in the Electronic Global Village Creative Interferences and the Rise of Culturally Mediated Computing Charles Ess 1 I Theoretical Approaches: Postmodernism Habermas Luhmann Hofstede II Theory Praxis III Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences on the (Silk) Road to the Global Village: Indian and Thailand