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

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.

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

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.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

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