An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

Humans change themselves through technology.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

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.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.