practical common sense addresses the challenge of artificial stupidity by developing platforms and resources which enable existing and emerging software applications to appreciate and leverage the background and context which human beings take for granted.

deep texts reinvent the software of books as semantically rich, socially embedded artifacts which combine knowledge bases, web portals, wikis, and traditional texts, connecting readers to networks of knowledge, resources, and individuals.

e-Communion connects individuals and communities across space, time, language, and purpose, using "meaningful technologies" of semantic description and social networking to gather individuals together around common knowledge and purposes while amplifying individual insight and understanding.