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.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

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

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