The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

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

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.