People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!