People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

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

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.