I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

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

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.