If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

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.

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.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.

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.

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