I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

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

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.