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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.