This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

We go from curiosity to a search for communion.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?