Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

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.

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.