A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

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

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

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.

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