You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

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

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

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

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

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

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.