There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinctio….

Telecommuting has its advantages and it has its limits. I think we need to find that sweet spot in between where it helps the environment, it helps p….

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devic….

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization..

Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek..

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything be….

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences..

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person..

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so tha….

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial medi….

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues..

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually..

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do..

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster….

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world..

Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilization….

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment ….

I guess music in general is the transportation business..

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards..

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines..

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the….