If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the possibility of simply getting rid of war. I'd be no more willing to let go of that than to let go of the possibility of eradicating cancer. That's not to say I'm certain we can, but I am willing to use any energy at all in the quest.

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.