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.

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.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

I guess music in general is the transportation business.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.