It is not in principle enormously creative to talk at length about what you are going to do. It is probably preferable, if you can, just to do whatever it is that needs to be done, and then be judged by the results. To an extent, with The Commons, this is already happening. Visitors will already find that the basic organizing concept, the electronic environment, is already being put to work to demonstrate how this can be made useful in very concrete terms. Nonetheless, there are a certain number of themes we very much have in mind to develop over the next few years, and these are worth at least brief mention before you plunge in the detail of what follows:

• The Information Society and Sustainable Development
• Rethinking Work -- Unemployment and work in a knowledge society
• STEP -- The Sustainable Transport Emergency Program
• Brains on the knee -- New ways of bringing brainpower to where the real problems lie
• New tools -- for better understanding, approaching and solving problems of technology and society
• Barriers to change -- How to identify, isolate and neutralize when necessary
• Breakthrough approaches (Are there ways to prepare for positive change that we are currently overlooking?)
• The region and the city -- as the key to socio-economic innovation (include Operation Bootstrap)
• New partnerships -- between the public and private sectors
• Economics-- Uses and abuses thereof
• Intellectual property and its rewards in this new age
• Sustainable Development (and its many subsets)
• The Energy Vector --Perhaps among the best keys to the transition to a sustainable economy)
• Dematerialisation -- Factors of 4, 10, 20, etc.
• The New Tax System -- Toward a civilization of industrious, independent, knowledgeable, responsible adults
• Custodianship and consumerism -- Paths for joyful, convivial and creative transitions to a knowledge society
• Learning in a knowledge society (As opposed to teaching, education or training)
• The New Alexandria -- Words, pictures, sounds and other creative devices for communicating knowledge and developing new insights
• The Children's Program (for and by, both aimed at children and helping children in their turn to inform and help adults)
• Homeless -- A 'free form' self-defining forum that will attempt to apply the collective intelligence and good will of The Commons to see if we can somehow make a contribution to this gut-wrenching social issue
• Prison -- As above on prisons and incarceration, work and social alienation

If you take the time to page through the several electronic environment sites already in place, you will see that a number of these themes are already being introduced actively as key elements of the program even in these very early stages. This leaves us, however, with a great deal more to do.