Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

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

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

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.