To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.