Richard Wyce - Cellist The changing world of the 21st century. August 21, 2022 Radio, Television, and now the Internet, have completely changed how human beings communicate with one another . Are we overcrowding our brains with too much information and if so, how does that affect how we live? For as long as I can remember I have been asking myself the question: how can I say something new to my fellow human beings that hasn’t been said time and time again before? My father always told me that every word we say has been thought of and said before; so if that is true, how can we say something original? Perhaps the Arts are one answer? Traditionally Music, Painting and the Visual Arts, and Writing have always been the preferred methods, but with today’s mass media this has all somehow got jumbled up together, and is so accessible to the general public that we seem to have lost the ability to discern the difference between greatness and, at its best, mediocrity. Indeed mu...