There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

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.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

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

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.