When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

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

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

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