If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.