It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.

I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.