Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

Information is alienated experience.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

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