Once upon a time there was an island named Blogosphere, and at the very center of that island stood a great castle built of stone, and spreading out from that castle for miles in every direction was a vast settlement of peasants who lived in shacks fashioned of tin and cardboard and straw.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.