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“I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.”

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Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all…

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“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to make something…

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“Early risers strolling along the Thames would see the toshers wading through the muck of low tide, dressed almost comically in flowing velveteen coats, their oversized pockets filled with stray bits of copper recovered from the water’s edge. The toshers walked with a lantern strapped to their chest to help them see in the predawn gloom, and carried an eight-foot-long…

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“Build a tangled bank.”

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If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

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The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel…

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Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen…

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“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for many Americans, the first cultural common ground between black and white America that had been largely created by African-Americans.”

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Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards…

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“From am overall eclsyste,s perspective, if you're going to have 10million human beings trying to share an environment with other life-forms, it's much better to crowd all 10 million of them a hundred square miles than it is to spread them out, edge-city style, over a space ten or a hundred times that size. If we're going to survive as…

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Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click here for…

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“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.”

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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

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We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think…

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The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

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I don't have faith in the Internet, I have faith in people connected through the Internet.

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