Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.