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

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

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.

Information is alienated experience.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.