Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

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.

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.