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.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.