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

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

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