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

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

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

I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.