A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

The audience is a big part of the show.

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

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.