"Yes, well, first of all, I don't mean the World Wide Web. I mean a web of -- well, I suppose it's a web of knowledge and events.

I believe that if you look the whole of the past up until this second (and, of course, it's changing with every second as time passes) -- if you look at the entire past in terms of timelines, every thread of which being, of course, timelines, there are -- during their lives, they bump into many other peoples' timelines, so there's already a kind of crisscrossing set of timelines in any one person's life.

Plus the fact, of course, that they use an artifact -- I use this telephone right now to speak, we're using data-communications to talk on the Internet, I go downstairs and I turn on my faucet to drink a glass of water, I watch TV, I read a book -- and in doing so I touch the timelines of other peoples' lives who were involved in providing and creating and developing and inventing those things. So, in that sense, we all live all connected with all others on this gigantic interconnecting, interdependent web.

And what I like to do with these programs [Connections] is to journey on that web. One of the reasons I do it is, because, first of all, it' s an interesting way to look at how everything connects to us.

And the other thing, of course, I think, is because I'm trying to show people that everybody means something. Every time you do anything, whether you know it or not, you affect the web in some way or other, maybe a very small way, and it may be that the ultimate effect of what you've done may take a year, five years, ten years, a hundred years to work out. But since we are all linked -- all our timelines are linked, if you like -- everything every individual does matters because we are the web, we and our lives are the web, and we and our lives are linked because of those artifacts that I mentioned to you before, or others. We are all linked to the past, too.

(Text transcibed from audio by Lynda Abbott)

{Note: That link is currently dead, and I have not, yet, found anywhere else on the Web that this RealAudio clip has been posted. -- LA}