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.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

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.

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.