The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Everybody has a different Internet.

The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.