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.

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

There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.

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

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

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.