_ Tomorrow Queen Mary II starts a virtual Transatlantic cruise from New York to Southampton. If there had been such capability almost one hundred years ago on May 1, 1915, German terrorists couldn’t have sneaked aboard with their bombs. And the captain of the U-Boat who sank the ship couldn’t have gotten away with it as people broadcast messages by email and videos were being sent back and forth to shore. He wouldn’t have been captured before he got away. And the notoriety of the deed would have been much more public. Broadcast around the world on TV as it were, the Great War would probably have ended right then in a draw as it was destined to end four years later in Paris after thousands more were dead.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it’s also worth more than one thousand lives.