Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.

Running for president is the new selfie.