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

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.