We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

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.

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

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

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.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.