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

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.