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

We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flavor extremism they are - is a really bad thing. More information may not be a good thing, either.

Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.