President Obama gave his first State of the Union address tonight.  Concurrent web surfing gave me a fresh admiration for www.whitehouse.gov, a beautifully designed online presence for Obama’s administration.  Politics aside, I greatly appreciate the transparency of the whole lot, and I am thus prompted to write a little about something I would, and plan to, give my professional career.

Global communication is improving.  You have real-time information about how many Americans were killed in battle last week at your fingertips.  College classes are being taught with no preparation other than a few Google searches (Dr. Pellerin.)  Sex-trafficking in Colombia, South America is a major concern to a church in Greenville, South Carolina.  The state of our world is transparent.

The Obama administration at least claims to be doing their part to streamline bureaucracy and waste.  With freshly redesigned news sites, we can now closely observe to see whether that’s true.  News about the earthquake in Haiti traveled instantly, and a text message is all it takes to send money.

I plan to be at the forefront of the crowd that implements more possibilities to use new-age communication to do justice.  Once upon a time, ignorance was a great excuse; now, our radius is expanding, our knowledge is vast and our responsibilities are large.