Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine..

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has….

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet..

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over..

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age..

In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places.….

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good..

In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that….

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios..

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our ….

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what ….

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against t….

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragm….

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel..

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone..

Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very differ….

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time..

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first pla….

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some ….

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of ….

I'm an advocate of human nature..