I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land mines [and convince them not to build more dangerous mines]. And that has actually worked.

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

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.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

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.