We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

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.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)

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