dedication of

the peace cube

united nations peace bell - 20 march 1997earthday on the equinox on the internet - towards a culture of peace

it is an honour to be here again

last year i spoke of an invitation to a journey

at that point the next step in the journey was to istanbul

to the conference on human settlements

in that journey - i said -

we need to go far beyond where we had gone

if we are going to turn around the imbalance

the disorder, the chaos, the unsustainability, the violence

we need to go as far as we could in our minds

we need to go as far as we can

in connecting with each other in a global mind

in the global network of connectivity that is the internet

as i followed this journey

i came across a rather remarkable gift

a gift of light

i want to just take a moment

to dedicate this gift - this little cube

i call it the virtual light and colour cube

and i dedicate it now - here - as the peace cube

that is

all of the colours that you can find in a computer

virtually all the colours you can find anywhere

in a little cube - in a little box

i had discovered, had realized - while on-line

while planning on-line follow-up to istanbul -

about colours

about how they can be made up of

red green and blue light

a little later i suddenly became aware -

from the mathematics of it -

that this cube existed

this is the first time it's really been seen in public

it is something that has many faces

and so many different directions

it soon became clear -

that each of the faces of the cubes

involved part of a journey from darkness to light

by adding the three primary colours -

red, green and blue - to darkness - to black

a whole series of patterns emerged

i have become immersed in these patterns

in discovering the wonderful gifts

they are bringing to us - gifts of colour and light

what soon became very clear is

although we have have first been able to see

this cube through the lens of a computer

the properties - the qualities - of this cube

are properties of light - properties of nature

they're mirrored back from the "other side"

from the virtual world

i just want to take a moment

to give you one very brief glimpse of the cube

i began to realize that

the patterns of moving from darkness to light

we can arrange them in patterns of

red, green, and blue

with a wonderful moving patterns

it turns out that there's another cube

which does the same thing but differently

it's going in the other direction

from blue to green to red

so i just wanted to dedicate this cube

and ask you to join with me

in a prayer that

this light can be a symbol

of all the different lights in one

an icon to guide us through the next millennium