The body is just the vehicle for something else.

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

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

We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

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.