The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.

I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your social experiences and extends a life even if you're no longer in the game or you are no longer alive.

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.