Sustainability, Knowledge Management and the Internet

The thesis is developed that the key to human survivability and sustainability lies in our ability to make use of knowledge tools primarily the latest electronic ones, namely, computers and the Internet. We show that computing and the Internet are part of a evolutionary chain of languages which also includes speech, writing, math, and science, where language is defines as communications plus informatics. The relationship between media, technology and social class are described to set the background for how resources can be redistributed in an equitable manner to insure the sustainability of the human race. The practical role that computers and the Internet can play in realizing these laudable goals is then described.