The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

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

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

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.