“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept and only… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the creator and… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the very word “zero” has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning “empty,” which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“So everything is an algorithm now. And just as every Google search uses its algorithms to produce a different result for each person searching,… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“professional journalists who are seeing their jobs evaporate are typically those whose employers failed to find a new role in a world of abundant information. By and large, that means newspapers, which are an industry that will probably have to reinvent itself as dramatically as music labels. The top tier (the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) will probably… — Chris Anderson Copy Share
“In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a column? The number 60 is one wedge in the sixties column and no wedges in the ones column. How do you write “no wedges”? The Babylonians needed a placeholder that represented nothing. They had to, in effect, invent… — Chris Anderson Copy Share
“2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
