FIRST-PERSON: Smaller world, bigger task
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--When I was a boy growing up in Arkansas, the world seemed so much bigger than it is today. That was before we took for granted the ability to step onto a plane in the morning and arrive across country or across the ocean in a matter of hours. It also predated satellite and Internet communications that today give us the means to instantly transfer video, voice and just about any other kind of data in which we may be interested.