What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.