“We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban gen…” — Bruce Sterling

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.