Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

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

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

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.