When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

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.

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

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.