Knowledge management technologies and traditional wisdom for facilitating online collaboration, cross-civilizational dialog and the creation of new virtual communities. computing: quantum holography, pre-/post-rational non-binary thinking taxonomy: traditional and contemporary 'order of things' publishing: XML/XSL, DTDs, Schemas navigation: Topic Maps, RDF, XLink ontology: SUO, PSI - ambiguity, nonsense and the tyranny of meaning networking: bootstrapping communication: synchronous vs asynchronous, automatic translation logic: Peirce, Sowa, ? artificial intelligence: Cyc Knowledge Server HCI: web design, Zoom interface? language: (Sanskrit) grammar, semiotics, NLP dialog: IBIS, DialogMapping, 'neural' networking debate: etiquette, style, cross (-cultural) posting negotiation: strategies hierarchy: pedagogy, group moderation community: Yahoo!Groups, Semantic Web power: communication, surveillance, hacking knowledge: democracy, self-empowerment, social responsibility