After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing - - getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know these things?... Babble and twitter. Full of sound...

There is no guarantee that networked information technology will lead to the improvements in innovation, freedom, and justice that I suggest are possible. That is a choice we face as a society. The...

The point of providing these details is to emphasize that intelligent machines are complicated and hard to master. To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires...

This is why clutter is dangerous. It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we...

Technologies are not neutral: they come with attached agendas, with associated ways of thinking. Industrial revolutions are inherently political revolutions.

The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.

If you took the world away and just left the electricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a...

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

We have made some progress, thought Gladstone, despite the inertia forced upon us by the Core. Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own...

Every fatline receiver in the Web, Outback, galaxy, and universe would monitor the squirt, but only the Consul's ship could decode it. Or so she hoped. The

Now the nation's largest billboard company, Clear Channel Outdoor Inc., is bringing customized pop-up ads to the interstate. Its Radar program, up and running in Boston and 10 other US cities, uses...

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn't appear for more than a hundred years.

What makes you think they're spying on you? Voco. An aut where a fraa or suur is called out from the math-Evoked-and goes to do something praxic for the Panjandrums. We never see them again.

In the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns...

The Buddha, the Divine, dwells in the circuit of a computer or in the gears of a motorcycle's transmission with the same ease as it does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.

As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that,...

Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting...

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.