practical common sense addresses the challenge of artificial stupidity by developing platforms and resources which enable existing and emerging software applications to appreciate and leverage the background and context which human beings take for granted.

reinventing reading recreates the software of books by developing interfaces which preserve the natural affordances of printed books while combining them with knowledge bases, web portals, and wikis, connecting the work and the reader to networks of knowledge, resources, and communities, and individuals.

e-Communion connects individuals and communities across space, time, language, and purpose, using "meaningful technologies" of semantic description and social networking to gather individuals together around common knowledge and purposes while amplifying individual insight and understanding.