I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another ….

Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part….

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break peop….

We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more th….

Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power th….

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessar….

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come..

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene..

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….

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

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infras….

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral….

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

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising..

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….

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure..

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle..

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action..

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience..

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy..

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