This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.