Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

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

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.