Occupation: Writer Birth: July 7, 1947
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds..
If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world..
One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have e….
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….
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action..
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action..
Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation..
Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening..
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens..
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things..
The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene..
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….
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….
The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests m….
If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter..
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….
Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the sa….
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….
See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure..
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time..