See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

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.

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.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.