Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

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.

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.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

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

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.