We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.