Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.