While I keep appreciating how technology changed radically the way peoples across the globe communicate, breaking the strict rules of hierarchy and formalities, space and time, and the way development agenda could evolve, in one corner of my home is a growing threat on my role as a mother. I have been torn between different poles: freedom and restrictions, uniqueness and diversity, local and global, simplicity and sophistication,etc. As far as I could remember, I found the Americana encyclopedia a regular item where the volumes one could find in any corner of our house, 30 volumes plus 10 additional popular science books and yearly updates. I could recall using them as a weight to fix my mosquito net in tact the whole night through when I was not yet a reader for fear of Malaria. My mom ultimately developed high tolerance in our persistent violation of the rule putting them back to proper shelves after using. To find a subject, one needs to scan the Index, a separate book. Oh, you would have several volumes in front of you if only to read more. Nowadays, school kids would just have a few clicking of the mouse or touching the pad and be able to browse just anything about the world. No hassles [except probably when electricity has gone out,viruses,spams which can be managed] real time, no dust mites, color rich, animated, etc... However, I have no one else to blame but myself for providing my two kids the PC and laptop excluding other toy gadgets,one I found out later was a bugging device unknowingly brought home as a gift from one of their friends. All of these have challenged some of the universal values which parents of the last two decades would behold and cherish. We are confronted with a monster having two heads [old, rustic, slow with new, dynamic, precise, neat and fast moving]. Even those children who would not have sufficient food to eat,those who could not afford to attend school, would have a bit of access to technology via their friends who have more in life, but who would try to address the emerging issues and concerns which technology have brought damage to many of our children, youth and adults? I am a parent with the best intentions of bringing home computers if only to provide them access to information, communication and technology so they could appreciate the world order better but I feel that I need support system from other institutions who could put policies forward if only to protect them from the negative effects of the cyberspace,virtual realities,which not a single individual or institution would contain. I am just a simple user of the computer, practical person who would use the net for personal and official purposes, forgoing online and participate with passion on global development electronic forums, engage myself in institutional talk-through if only I could attract attention from people whom I believe can better address development needs by putting forward issues that traditionally be put via expensive and time consuming round tables. And so, as a mother and a common development worker in the government sector, I could only keep myself connected with the global development issues in terms of getting myself informed, trying to find their meanings in the daily routine at the department where farmers would come to rally against the perceived inefficiencies in bringing agrarian justice happen where it should happen. Truly, how many of us would stop one moment and think about the lives of those who form part of the base of the economic pyramid and yet the least to gain welfare, benefits, returns, profits, whatever term you could name it? My reflections bring me misery because if I, myself, with sufficient academic preparations, development work exposures, with modest desires of what it takes to be a public servant, feels the enduring pains of poverty,a poverty as defined and understood by those at the base of economic pyramid,what am I to do enough to move a grain of poverty? Unless the brightest among those who are at the peak of the pyramid,could bring out the champions among them to take some time to genuinely take a bit of climb down the pyramid, see if the budget fits right, if the interventions served on time and sufficiently respond to the BOP's dialogues about what they intend to address with the goodwill of their governments, generous rich nations, partners in development would facilitate them in their temporary inadequacies, the world will never be flat at all, never if you think it was a minute flat. Flatly speaking, the world would collapse if we don't bring results to the base of the eco-socio-political pyramid. At least let us have a a just, peaceful triangle. Even if the world is not flat, it could still be a triangle with goodwill.