1.	Let's have a panel of young men and women convene to discuss the war in Yugoslavia. Let it be an international body. Let it be made up of the people who will fight the war, and who will have to live with its aftermath. Let's create a new process that incorporates the wisdom of young people. We make an assumption that they don't have enough experience to make the right call. This assumption is totally wrong. In fact, they haven't learned how to lie as we have. And they still have a residue of hope for a bright future that most older folks have lost. We say we want a bright future for them, but we are mistaken if we think it's the future we design. It never is.
2.	Now, believe it or not, with the Internet, things will change. When we look at the Internet we see huge dollars being made in Silicon Valley and Wall Street and most importanlty, in places like Littleton. But we've overlooked, for the moment, the political power it gives to people who know how to use the medium, and the people who grok the medium are young. Time has a way of hurrying things up at a rate 40-somethings can't perceive. Today's 18 year old was only 6 years old in 1987 when the PC revolution was booming. They were young when the web was young. We forget how fast young people grow. There are a lot of producitve hours to fill between age 6 and 18. These people are deep, and they have various levels of frustration, and a different yet spookily familiar kind of frustration.
3.	It all comes back to the "I want to create my own future" thing. When there's no avenue for creativity, frustration develops, and allowed to fester long enough, it explodes. That's the message of Littleton. And the solution is easy, empower them to channel their energy in efficient ways, open the door for their future and get out of the way. Perhaps the baby boomer generation will reliquish power to the next generation without going to war with them?