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.

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

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.