If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's suppos….

There's no victory-condition for being human..

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate..

It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan p….

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead p….

Information wants you to give me a dollar..

Everybody has a different Internet..

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not….

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music..

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (….

"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek ro….

Open-source is a means of production..

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come ….

The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's ….

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today..

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450..

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years ….

Find a client and get a job..

Every passing year brings us more past futures..