The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

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

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.

In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.