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

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

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

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.