Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs politics investment and technology.

As children many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

In my column series 'The Main Thing ' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Well another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology it's the box it comes in.

Take therefore what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That in my view gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.