Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.