I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

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

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.