The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

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.

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

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