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.

1947 America blasted off.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

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

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?