We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

It's 10:30 p.m. and the day seems almost over. The kids finally fell asleep. My wife is reading in the living room. At last, the house is quiet. Doing a bit of reading myself is a possibility, or perhaps a round of channel surfing on TV. But I decide against it. Something more intriguing waits for me beyond the walls of my home, something that uniquely mixes work with play. Having just published my book on contemporary psychoanalysis and Eastern philosophy, which I considered a swan song for that stage of my career, I found something new and exciting to study, another realm to explore as a psychologist who loves to apply his discipline to something seemingly far afield of the mainstream. I settle into the swivel chair at my desk, fire up my brand new and very own computer – for I am the first in my neighborhood to have one – and I head into that wonderfully mysterious new world that I had discovered only a few months before, a world only geeks like me appreciated or even knew existed. Even though we are an oddball collection of people, we all suspect that this new space is leading us onto a path that could empower all people, as long as we avoid the pitfalls along the way.