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

Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

The body is just the vehicle for something else.

There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.