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."

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

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

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

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the hallways of the publication you work for. That's like an orthopedic surgeon trying to perform arthroscopic surgery on their own knee. It's possible, but it's hard to see through all the pain.