BILL GATES

Without specialisation, we would not have computers, the internet, cars, antibiotics, or all the other more sophisticated things.

Specialisation creates wealth. The power of specialisation is related to the size of the economy. In a small village, there's only so much specialisati...

E-thinking has moved us into habits of grabbing our phones to answer the simplest of questions: finding the map directions to a known address, or calculating the square root of four.

While the verdict is still out if the internet is rewiring and/or dumbing us down, we should cons...

• Antisocial behaviour existed well before the Internet. The same argument was used about the telephone - that it would reduce social encounters. But it really facilitated more of them.
• An attempt to separate the Internet from everyday life is useles...