If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

Computers make people stupid.

For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?