Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.