My commitment to America's future

"What has happened in the past is very small in comparison to what will happen in the future", is a powerful quote given by digital media pioneer Nathan Mryvold on the explosion of mass-media in the information age. When I first heard this quote, I learned that many nations will be tested in the next 50-100 years. I wondered which nations would survive this explosion of information. Would it be the dictatorships, which could attempt to shield this new information from their people? Or would it be the democracies, which could buckle under all the new waves of enlightenment? What about America; would America survive this pandemonium of clashing sensationalist ideology?

When I received the theme of this year’s oratory contest, my commitment to America’s future. I thought about what America’s future would hold. You see, I believe society is at a critical point, possibly the most critical point it has ever encountered. This amplitude of information, which is unprecedented in histor...