I think of the following pieces as chips (lexias) produced in my efforts to create a well-built beautifully-designed understanding of academic research and teaching. Increasingly, I find myself these days questioning the foundations of what we are doing in and with the university. The common theme of these chips, as my identification as cyborg denotes, is the impact on education of modern technologies. My present encounters with students convince me that we are not accomplishing what we have hoped and that, sometimes (enantidromia reigns), we achieve something closer to the opposite of that to which we nobly aspire. I am convinced that we (both teachers and students) must aim, through discovery and invention, at becoming good citizens of the world. To me this means living in a world of remarkable and irreconcilable diversity and complexity (a postmodern world) in peace, having respect for others while honoring one’s own traditions. This entails knowing how to live with personal clarity and confidence both as individuals and as members of our own cultures while embracing, graciously and openly, in depth and with sincerity, the differences (and sometimes similarities) of so many others, differences that are at root so fundamental as to not only be irreconcilable, but also to raise for us the most fundamental questions of meaning and reality. Being a good citizen of the world entails embracing these questions and issues as part of one’s identity.