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

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

The audience is a big part of the show.

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.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.