Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

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.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

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

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