Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.