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

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

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.

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

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

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