I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.