What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

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.

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.

When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology.

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.