What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

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.

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

Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.