A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.