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

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

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

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.