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

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

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.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.