I was supposed to be watching television with my family the other night and my husband abruptly said, "WHAT are you reading?" My teenage son and daughter stopped watching the TV and looked at me, sitting in the swivel-rocker with the laptop computer in my lap. "I’m reading about the Doors of Perception, this cool conference that took place in India, and I hope I get to attend one day. So then I read a couple of paragraphs to them. But it was clear they think I’m deranged.

So I’m reading the Fast Company blog and Heath Row has an extensive excerpt from a speech that David Weinberger gave at a meeting called Freedom to Connect, and David links to Joi Ito’s comments about his experiences at Doors of Perception, and I’m reminded how Fast Company keeps me connected to the tiny fraction of people in the world who care about the same things I care about. Here’s what David said,

Rather than hear about the spread of democracy, I want to hear about the spread of connection. There is no freedom without connection. There is no peace without connection. There is no joy without connection. That doesn’t mean that this is about getting the protocol stack right, but it kind of is. We need to speak truth. More, louder, more directly, and in terms that are technical — and not.