I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Things aren't different. Things are things.