American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

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

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.