Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

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

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.