Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

1947 America blasted off.

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.