I'm An Advocate Of Human Nature.

America's Facebook Generation Shows A Submission To Standardization That I Haven't Seen Before. The American Adventure Has Always Been About People Forgetting Their Former Selves - Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac Went On The Road. If They Had A Facebook Page, They Wouldn't Have Been Able To Forget Their Former Selves.

An Intelligent Person Feels Guilty For Downloading Music Without Paying The Musician, But They Use This Free-open-culture Ideology To Cover It.

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.

Advertisers Are Not Thinking Radically Enough - They Look For Technology To Lead Instead Of Trying The Neuroscience Approach And Thinking About What Parts Of The Brain Haven't Been Activated Before. These New Experiences Bring New Capabilities To The Brain.

People Try To Treat Technology As An Object, And It Can't Be. It Can Only Be A Channel.