What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.