The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
Esther DysonHaving seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
Esther DysonThe inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind of cheapness to everything, where everything becomes throwaway. And people, I think, have started to undervalue things, maybe because there's too much, maybe because it's too easy to make, but I think mostly just because, somehow, that's the pattern that got set. And I think that's regrettable.
Esther Dyson