The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can start talking about how you manage the climate of that city as a whole. Not by putting a dome over it but by more passive means that can potentially be put together in creative ways.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do so without using air conditioning and heating in the way that is so incredibly expensive to the environment.

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.