Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.