Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

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

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

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

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.