You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

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

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.

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

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

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.