If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say