Books Are Really, Really Hard

All Over The World Today People Have A Very Strong Desire To Find A Sense Of Identity, And At The Same Time That's Coupled With The Rise Of Absolutely Absurd Wars That Relate To Ethnic Identity. Perhaps There Is Something Deeply Ingrained In People That Relates To A Sense Of Belonging, And Without That, Identity Doesn't Seem As Real As It Should.

There Is No Difference Between Machine Autonomy And The Abdication Of Human Responsibility.

Information Is Alienated Experience.

Siren Servers Are Narcissists; Blind To Where Value Comes From, Including The Web Of Global Interdependence That Is At The Core Of Their Own Value.

Back In The 1980s, When The Internet Was Only Available To A Small Number Of Pioneers, I Was Often Confronted By People Who Feared That The Strange Technologies I Was Working On, Like Virtual Reality, Might Unleash The Demons Of Human Nature. For Instance, Would People Become Addicted To Virtual Reality As If It Were A Drug? Would They Become Trapped In It, Unable To Escape Back To The Physical World Where The Rest Of Us Live? Some Of The Questions Were Silly, And Others Were Prescient.