New year resolutions? So quickly, most are broken and soon forgotten. Remember Millennium Madness? We are all captivated by time and its deep mystery, but today's newest technologies are moving us beyond the Grand Master of time, Sir Isaac Newton, and right into Einstein's Mind.

And, our experience of these new technologies can give us access to the same insight that was Einstein's genius!

We all have a little hidden magic right on our desktop. In this episode of the television show we learn how one small business is generating big business by teaching and implementing technology that is on the bleeding-leading edge. In its simplest form it is known as instant messaging; but in the more advanced stages, it becomes collaboration whereby literally hundreds of people can be in an online meeting, looking at the same content, though separated by 24 different time zones, every continent, and thousands and thousands of miles. It's a revolution. It's technology's evolution.

As children we all naturally inherited Sir Isaac Newton's mechanistic worldview, and the fundamentality of space and time just became "commonsense." Though Einstein taught us that light is a more fundamental frame of reference, it did not compute with the general public. Few grasped its importance. And even though intellects like Cambridge University astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking tried to help us with his best-selling book, "A Brief History of Time," the concepts still fell into a black hole.

Although in this episode of the show the demonstration of collaboration software is a bit simplistic, if one were to extend it to its severest test, the essence of collaboration appears to transcend space -- many people are meeting but can be physically located any where on the planet. Conceivably the meeting could be conducted with a person in every one of the 24 one-hour time zones. The key questions, then, are:

• What time is it when the meeting takes place? Is it some "new" universal time? Is it all 24 times? Is it 24 different times? You can begin to feel time taking a "relative" position to something else.
• Where are they when they are all focused on the same thought, the same concept at the same time? Are there as many spaces as there are people involved? Is there a new "mental" space that is created they all share?

What do you think?