It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.