The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.