The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

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

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

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

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.