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

The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

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.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.