The goal of your first essay is to respond to Dean Barnlund’s essay “Communication in a Global Village.” Specifically, I want you to respond to the following questions which Barnlund asks toward the beginning of his essay:

Will [the world’s] residents be neighbors capable of respecting and utilizing their differences, or clusters of strangers living in ghettos and united only in their antipathies for others?

Can we generate the new cultural attitudes required by our technological virtuosity? (62).