Save the web to help save the world: Web now in our lives for 30 years

There can hardly be more valuable personality traits than a robust sense of optimism and great physical and intellectual energy. Kindness is another priceless characteristic but, in today’s world, an active, positive perspective seems the most relevant and ever-more necessary. So many issues crowd on those lucky enough to live contented lives that the capacity to identify the silver lining in one of the many clouds gathering on the horizon is to be cherished.

Climate change and the catastrophe it promises are staples of our daily conversation, though that unavoidable acknowledgment has yet to be reflected in meaningful countermeasures. Anyone who considers these issues cannot but be disheartened, and frightened, by our inadequate response and the deepening sense that time is slipping away.