1947 America blasted off.

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.