And so jumping off of that, thinking beyond the built environment into the natural world, I have this ongoing project called Botanicalls which actually enables houseplants to tap into human communication protocols.

We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

Government offices on opposite sides of the line could only conduct routine business communications by radio or telephone on the four days of the week which were weekdays on both sides.

Yes, we ran this as a business, but someone needed to pay the philanthropic support that came into the training, and the management support, the strategic advice and, maybe most important of all, the access to new contacts, networks and new markets.

When I went this morning to Larry Brilliant's TEDTalk prize his fabulous networks imagine if there was an open source mesh communications device that can be put into those networks, to make all that happen.

I believe that these tools that worked in these 42 pilot cases can be consolidated in standard processes in a BPO kind of environment, and made available on web, call center and franchise physical offices, for a fee, to serve anyone confronted with a demand for a bribe.

It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astro engineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect.