It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.