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.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.

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

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.