Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.