The twentieth century found the North American continent stripped of most of the thousands of indigenous knowledge systems that centuries of healers, philosophers, and mystics had assembled. Of the various cultural regions on the continent, none was more fertile than the Pacific Northwest Coast. Over the millennia, conclaves of adepts would gather every winter in what today would be called "think tanks" to reconsider the premises of knowledge and its potentials. In terms of time, talent, and effort, perhaps no other region on the planet invested so much in the sheer accumulation of knowledge....

Junana tracks the arc of a new society in an alternative present time, using concepts and technologies that are mostly available today. Junana displays the future of education that many top scholars in the field are beginning to discuss. The eventual convergence of Internet gaming and education will put powerful learning tools into the hands of teens. In Junana we follow several of these teens as their world explodes through their Game experiences. In Junana the future is now, and we are all gamers. Junana is the beginning of a series of books that lead the reader into this new present. The...