Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

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