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."

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

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.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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