Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, parents were upset because their kids were reading dime-store novels. Parents would say, "I don't want you inside reading anymore. Get outside and play." I guarantee you, in 50 years or so, parents are going to say, "You're not going outside to play until you finish that video game."

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

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.

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

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.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.