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If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die.
Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.
It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce.
Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship.
The more interconnected a technology is, the more opportunities it spawns for both use and misuse.
Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed.
Technology has become our culture, our culture technology.
An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.
No one has been more wrong about computerization than George Orwell in 1984. So far, nearly everything about the actual possibility-space which computers have created indicates they are the end of authority and not its beginning.
What little time left is in this century is rehearsal time for the chief psychological chore of the 21st century: letting go, with dignity.
The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.
The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.
