Mark Leonard

In a connected world, people don’t have an option to keep themselves to themselves: everyone is in each other’s face.

As the great sociologist Anthony Giddens has pointed out, social media has made a reality of the global village, where people form personal friendships and intimate relationships, but where we also contend with bullies, gossip, innuendo, deception and violence.

The tragedy of our generation is that the forces that have united humankind are also dividing us and threatening to destroy us.