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

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

The body is just the vehicle for something else.