I'm Not In Any Sense Anti-facebook.

The Beauty Of Html Was That One-way Linking Made It Very Simple To Spread Because You Could Put Something Up And Take No Responsibility Whatsoever. And That Creates A Society In Which People Display No Responsibility Whatsoever. That's The Problem.

A Real Friendship Ought To Introduce Each Person To Unexpected Weirdness In The Other.

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

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 Different? There Are Mathematical Models Of Large Groups Working Together That Lead To Conflict On A Reliable Basis. So There's A Whole Other View Of War That Is Not Psychological At All.

We Imagine "pure" Cybernetic Systems, But We Can Prove Only That We Know How To Build Fairly Dysfunctional Ones. We Kid Ourselves When We Think We Understand Something, Even A Computer, Merely Because We Can Model Or Digitize It.