The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.

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

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.