I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.