One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

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 wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?