It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

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.

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.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

1947 America blasted off.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.