Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.