Occupation: Writer Birth: February 18, 1961
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our ….
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively..
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable..
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program….
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accur….
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the lates….
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept..
The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up for grabs. ... You're safe be….
I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method….
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understa….
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occas….
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep….
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change. Retirement….
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most pe….
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause..
We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme..
We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe. And then we fight - sometimes to the dea….
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketin….
'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, th….
New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might pu….
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were s….