I worry about a society that can remember everything.

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

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

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

It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.