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.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

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

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.