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.

Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.

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

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

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.