Kevin Kelly

The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result.

The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships.

People will inhabit places, but increasingly the economy inhabits a space.

As in other technological evolutions, relationship tech will begin its innovation in the avant garde, then work back to the familiar.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention.

Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value of the network.

The network economy is founded on technology, but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust.

The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly.

Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness.

Not every success needs to be abandoned drastically, but every success needs to be questioned drastically.

The net demands wiser customers.

If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free.