One of the great tragedies of our time is that we have the tools and technologies available to us to free up our time and open up our lives to learning, creating, relaxing, and building. And yet....we are so attached to being busy that we spend most of our time looking forward, looking backward, and missing those things that are right in front of us. - Work and play - Robots or human beings? - Reconciliation between the external complexity and the internal one. - Ambivalence: social and personal