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

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

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

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.