Efforts of this type take very serious commitments of resources. Can we afford not to devote resources to cultural information? Education and deep learning require digital libraries, museums, and archives. Corporate partnerships, government, and private foundations all need to bear the expense.

Digital efforts of this type are only beginning to be represented to the public, but the widespread use of the Internet for communication, commerce, and economic innovation is a digital model of the physical world. The "public" will soon be a cyberpublic – with the same needs for cultural and the arts as the physical one.

As our societies get used to digital technologies as everyday experience – just as the printing press, the telephone, the electric light bulb have become common place – we will begin to understand that this technology is both a mirror and prediction tool. At that moment, the representation of culture will take on an immediacy and importance to a very wide range of people – everyone in fact because ignorance of cultural identity will no longer be possible - where you are, where you came from, and where you will go will be the questions that will be asked of the global networks.