An anthropologist, Sarah has spent many years looking for “her” tribe. (By the way, what is yours?) Sarah grew up in rural Georgia (USA) and now lives in rural Burgundy, with regularly scheduled visits to Geneva and Paris to gawk at the tall buildings. In between hewing wood and drawing water, Sarah connects to the outside world through Internet. Neither geek nor native, she rows hard to make sense of the digital world. (LIFT is a much appreciated source of inspiration and knowledge. So are the blogs of some of the people who attend.) Sarah wonders (in every sense of the word) at those who freely post their private lives on the Internet. For some reason, she can’t stop thinking about the scene in the movie “Independence Day” where the people party on the roof of the skyscraper to welcome the aliens. Sarah recently came across a speech Doris Lessing made back in 1998 on how humans have been affected by the invention of the printing press. “We are on the verge of another revolution as powerful – we are living it in fact – the electronic revolution. This is evidently affecting our brains. I can observe the process in myself: my attention span is shortening. Probably it is because of television, the way we constantly switch attention from one channel to another, but we don’t really know the reason. We have no idea what the end of it all will be, any more than the people knew who lived through the print revolution. We can say either that we are a very careless species, recklessly undertaking great changes without asking what the result will be, or that we are helpless in the face of our own inventions.” Sarah greatly respects Doris Lessing. Not least for the 89 year-old Lessing’s initial comment on being informed that she had won the 2007 Noble Prize: “Oh, crap!”