I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

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

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

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.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.