There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not - like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.
I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.
I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.
In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.
We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.
Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words - and this is the problem that they have with Americans - just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.
What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.
I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.
There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.
If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?
You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why.
Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.
What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.
My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."
There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs.
We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
