If there's a technology that can move forward and can produce a solid form, that's a good thing. You can run into lots of entanglements if you wait for every last detail of getting it offsite to be worked out.

The negatives outweighed the positives but it was unclear to what extent that reflected the opinion of the general population.

It's a concept we can support, but there are some details that still need to be worked out and DOE needs to improve some of its evaluation and communication.

We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.